What is another word for malicious?
622 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mɐlˈɪʃəs], [ mɐlˈɪʃəs], [ m_ɐ_l_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]
Malicious is commonly used to describe something or someone who is intending to harm someone else. There are several synonyms for this word that could also be used in various contexts to convey the similar meaning. These synonyms include hostile, spiteful, malevolent, vindictive, wicked, malign, venomous, hateful, and malignant. Hostile refers to a hostile behavior that is intended to harm someone. Spiteful refers to an act of ill will motivated by spite or vindictiveness. Vindictive refers to a desire for vengeance. Malevolent refers to wicked or deliberately harmful intent. Wicked refers to something or someone evil or immoral in nature. Malign refers to something that is harmful or evil. Venomous refers to an inclination or desire to harm others. Hateful refers to acts or feelings of extreme disgust or detestation. Finally, malignant refers to something that is malicious or actively harms others.
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Similar words for malicious:
- all (adjective)
- bad-tempered (adjective)
- bitchy (adjective)
- cutting (adjective)
- derogatory (adjective)
- diabolical (adjective)
- envious (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- evil-minded (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- fiendish (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- ill-natured (adjective)
- infernal (adjective)
- inhuman (adjective)
- inhuman/inhumane (adjective)
- libelous (adjective)
- malevolent (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- mephitical (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- poison/poisonous (adjective)
- savage (adjective)
- scornful (adjective)
- sneaky (adjective)
- spiteful (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- unkind (adjective)
- venomous (adjective)
- vicious (adjective)
- vindictive (adjective)
- vulgar (adjective)
- beady-eyed (noun)
- catty (noun)
- despiteful (noun)
- leering (noun)
- libel (noun)
- malicious (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- erring (verb)
- other synonyms
- base
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Malicious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bad-tempered (adjective) • bitchy (adjective) • cutting (adjective)- in-goinger,
- more wounding,
- ingoinger,
- In-going,
- in-goingest,
- clearcut,
- in goingest,
- in going,
- scathing,
- most wounding,
- in goinger,
- ingoingest.
- more minimizing,
- de precatory,
- de rogatory,
- most maligning,
- fault finding,
- de grading,
- more aspersing,
- de-grading,
- dis-honoring,
- more detracting,
- most reproachful,
- un flattering,
- most decrying,
- de crying,
- de spiteful,
- de-precatory,
- de-spiteful,
- more maligning,
- de meaning,
- more decrying,
- de-crying,
- more reproachful,
- most detracting,
- more vilifying,
- more belittling,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- most demeaning,
- dis honoring,
- un-flattering,
- most vilifying,
- most minimizing,
- most belittling,
- de-rogatory,
- de-meaning,
- more demeaning,
- more dishonoring,
- most dishonoring,
- most aspersing.
- malevolent,
- cussed,
- baleful,
- bad-natured,
- bitter,
- loathing,
- beastly,
- detrimental,
- venomous,
- uncool,
- abhorrent,
- low,
- green-eyed,
- green,
- petty,
- malignant,
- vengeful,
- rancorous,
- Detesting,
- deleterious,
- mischievous,
- jealous,
- evil-minded,
- despising,
- wicked,
- repulsive,
- ornery,
- gross,
- noxious,
- injurious,
- hateful.
- most disapproving,
- more unwelcoming,
- most ill disposed,
- more disapproving,
- more ill disposed,
- most illdisposed,
- dis-approving,
- most ill-disposed,
- most oppugnant,
- in-hospitable,
- un welcoming,
- illdisposed,
- dis approving,
- most unwelcoming,
- more oppugnant,
- more illdisposed,
- un-welcoming,
- un sociable,
- un sympathetic,
- in hospitable,
- un-sociable,
- most opposite,
- more ill-disposed,
- most anti,
- ill disposed,
- more anti.
- most unpromising,
- most nocent,
- ill mannered,
- inauspicious,
- un luckier,
- un promising,
- in auspicious,
- dis respectful,
- fore-boding,
- in-auspicious,
- dis-respectful,
- fore boding,
- un lucky,
- un-lucky,
- most foreboding,
- un-luckier,
- un gracious,
- un-fortunate,
- un fortunate,
- ill,
- un-promising,
- more nocent,
- un-gracious,
- illmannered,
- un luckiest,
- un-luckiest,
- more unpromising,
- more foreboding.
- more ill humored,
- most tempersome,
- ill humored,
- more illhumored,
- more ill-humored,
- hot tempered,
- most ill humored,
- most cussed,
- dis agreeable,
- dis obliging,
- more tempersome,
- ill natured,
- more cussed,
- tempersome,
- illhumored,
- temperamental,
- most illhumored,
- illnatured,
- ill-humored,
- most ill-humored,
- dis-obliging,
- dis-agreeable.
- more nether,
- most nether,
- subterranean,
- sulphurous,
- more chthonian,
- most sulphurous,
- most chthonian,
- more sulphurous.
- most inhuman,
- un relenting,
- fellest,
- un compassionate,
- feller,
- un-compassionate,
- un feeling,
- in-humane,
- remorseless,
- in humane,
- cold blooded.
- ex asperating,
- pre-carious,
- mis behaving,
- ill behaved,
- most dickens,
- more vexing,
- more misbehaving,
- illbehaved,
- impish,
- most misbehaving,
- more rascal,
- most illbehaved,
- teasing,
- mis-behaving,
- most ill behaved,
- most exasperating,
- more ill-behaved,
- most ill-behaved,
- pre carious,
- more ill behaved,
- most rascal,
- holy terror,
- more exasperating,
- more dickens,
- more illbehaved,
- ex-asperating,
- most vexing.
- unfriendly,
- cutting,
- ingoing,
- demoniac,
- envious,
- nasty,
- ravening,
- harmful,
- anti,
- virulent,
- resentful,
- unkind,
- hostile,
- vindictive,
- Viperish,
- wolfish,
- Ogreish,
- derogatory,
- clear cut,
- spiteful,
- scornful,
- toxiferous,
- sullen,
- unwelcoming,
- brutish,
- nocent,
- toxicant,
- chthonian,
- hottempered,
- Satanical,
- false,
- savage,
- inhumane,
- Wreakful,
- demonical,
- reproachful,
- pernicious,
- retaliatory,
- Oppugnant,
- evil,
- septic,
- ill-behaved,
- unpromising,
- hurtful,
- vulgar,
- bitchy,
- ill-disposed,
- sneaky,
- vicious,
- infernal,
- coldblooded,
- unneighborly,
- Ferine,
- anti-social,
- dickens,
- cattish.
- more septic,
- most septic,
- infective,
- mephitic,
- more infective,
- most toxiferous,
- most infective,
- more toxiferous.
- more wolfish,
- most ravening,
- more demoniac,
- more ferine,
- more ravening,
- most wolfish,
- most ferine,
- most demoniac.
- in-direct,
- under hand,
- dis ingenuous,
- dis-ingenuous,
- in direct,
- under-hand,
- un-reliable,
- un reliable.
- un congenial,
- anti social,
- more against,
- un-friendly,
- un charitable,
- un friendliest,
- un friendly,
- dis affected,
- un-congenial,
- more estranged,
- most against,
- not speaking terms,
- mis-anthropic,
- dis-affected,
- un neighborly,
- un-neighborly,
- un-charitable,
- mis anthropic,
- un-friendlier,
- not on speaking terms,
- more unneighborly,
- most unneighborly,
- un-friendliest,
- most estranged,
- un friendlier.
- un caring,
- Hard-hearted,
- un kind,
- most hard hearted,
- in sensitive,
- un-caring,
- more hard-hearted,
- un-kind,
- un-kinder,
- un kinder,
- hard hearted,
- un-kindest,
- most hard-hearted,
- coldhearted,
- in-sensitive,
- un kindest,
- more hard hearted.
n.
• beady-eyed (noun) • catty (noun) • despiteful (noun) • leering (noun) • libel (noun) • malicious (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• erring (verb)Other synonyms:
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- wanton,
- opprobrious.
- damaging,
- accursed,
- caustic,
- sinful,
- Ridiculing,
- degenerate,
- acid,
- warped,
- horrid,
- villainous,
- dishonourable,
- acrid,
- immoral,
- diabolic,
- abominable,
- stern,
- acerb,
- dishonest,
- felonious,
- dire,
- destructive,
- censorious,
- grinding,
- hellish,
- full of hate,
- antipathetic,
- unhygienic,
- deceitful,
- refractory,
- cursed,
- despicable,
- devilish,
- belligerent,
- Fiendly,
- waspish,
- unsporting,
- acidulous,
- atrocious,
- cacodemonic,
- satiric,
- twisted,
- arbitrary,
- repugnant,
- vile,
- appalling,
- unjustified,
- unjustifiable,
- sadistic,
- deviate,
- dreadful,
- profligate,
- amoral,
- invidious,
- cruel,
- dangerous,
- acrimonious,
- corrupt,
- acidic,
- perverted,
- unforgiving,
- delinquent,
- blackguardly,
- disloyal,
- harsh,
- wise man,
- retributive,
- horrible,
- rotten,
- disdainful,
- outrageous,
- libellous,
- nefarious,
- retributory,
- dastardly,
- clashing,
- bad-tempered,
- mordacious,
- unprovoked,
- impious,
- odious,
- loathsome,
- vitriolic,
- severe,
- cynical,
- mordant,
- strict,
- contentious,
- captious,
- mephistophelian,
- bad,
- god-awful,
- piquant,
- conflicting,
- unscrupulous,
- diabolical,
- derisory,
- disobliging,
- contemptuous,
- damned,
- cat-hearted,
- embittered,
- poison-pen,
- hideous,
- underhand,
- knavish,
- unsportsmanlike,
- disgraceful,
- trenchant,
- colliding,
- scandalous,
- violent,
- unprincipled,
- unaccommodating,
- dissolute,
- merciless,
- set against,
- Cavilling,
- dirty,
- galling,
- corruptive,
- detestable,
- quarrelsome,
- ironic,
- unnatural,
- critical,
- wounding,
- Kindless,
- deviant,
- iniquitous,
- derisive,
- demonic,
- traitorous,
- damnable,
- defamatory,
- filthy,
- purposeless,
- unmoral,
- offensive,
- ill-wishing,
- abnormal,
- heartless,
- scurvy,
- flagitious,
- carping,
- ill-tempered,
- sore,
- unspeakable,
- sarcastic,
- terrible,
- uncalled-for,
- insidious,
- ghoulish,
- unfair,
- execrable,
- satanic,
- roughshod,
- punitive,
- Envenomed,
- acerbic,
- sharp,
- sardonic,
- unconscionable,
- biting,
- Unamiable,
- contumelious,
- base,
- splenetic,
- shameful,
- naughty,
- gratuitous,
- depraved,
- retaliative,
- motiveless,
- sneering,
- incisive,
- mocking.
How to use "Malicious" in context?
Maliciousness is a term most often used to describe someone or something who is secretly intending to do harm. It is often used to describe people or things who act without thinking, or who do not respect the rights of others. Maliciousness can also be used to describe the actions of a natural disaster or other disaster.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
evil, malevolent, spiteful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
abusive, adverse, bad, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, fraudulent, frivolous, harmful, hazardous, heinous, improper, mala, malign, naughty, nefarious, noxious, pernicious, perverse, purposive, rogue, sinister, sleepless, treacherous, vile, untrusted.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
criminal, deliberate, ill, insidious, intentional, malignant, mischievous, nasty, tendentious, vicious, wicked, wilful, willful, ill-intentioned.
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Proper noun, singular
malevolence.
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Adjective
Homophones for Malicious:
- mals, molokai, malaga, mollusc, milk shake, milky, menelaus, moniliasis, malacca, milkshake, manlike, mullus, mollusk, melicoccus, milk whey, Malachi, meles, maalox, mileage, meliaceae, molluga, moloch, myalgia, malleus, mammal-like, monologue, mills, moonless, molech, millais, malaysia, moluccas, malus, moniliaceae, mollusca, milwaukee, molasses, malaise, Malachias, molise, maiolica, mulish, malacia, moonwalk, myelic, monologuise, mealy sage, mls, milage, malik, malaxis, myology, milk cow, milch, mulch, moonlike, mammalogy, melicocca, Milch Cow, melosa, molasses cookie, milk, moniliales, molasses kiss, maul oak, monologuize, melissa, milky way, myalgic, moneyless, milk-sick, malice, Malawi Kwacha.
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