malevolent

English

Etymology

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From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈlɛvələnt/

Adjective

malevolent (comparative more malevolent, superlative most malevolent)

1. having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others
2. having an evil or harmful influence
   • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     Vela, Javier Hernández and Lozano switched positions with a thrillingly malevolent sense of purpose.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:evil

Antonyms

• benevolent

Derived terms

• malevolently

Translations

having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others

• Armenian: չարամիտ (hy) (čʻaramit)
• Azerbaijani: pisniyyətli, pis məqsədli, pisfikirli, qərəzli
• Bengali: পরশ্রীকাতর (porosrikator)
• Catalan: malèvol (ca)
• Dutch: kwaadwillend (nl)
• Esperanto: malbonavida, malbonintenca, malica
• Estonian: pahatahtlik
• Finnish: pahansuopa (fi), pahantahtoinen (fi)
• French: malintentionné (fr), malveillant (fr), malévolent (fr) (rare)
• Galician: malévolo m
• German: böswillig (de)
• Greek: μοχθηρός (el) (mochthirós)
• Indonesian: berniat jahat
• Irish: anchroíoch
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• Italian: malintenzionato (it)
• Macedonian: злонамерен (zlonameren)
• Malay: berniat jahat
• Maori: kikokiko, ngākaukino
• Norman: dêvoulu
• Old English: yfelwillende
• Persian: بدکامه (badkâme), بدخواه (fa) (badxâh)
• Polish: złowrogi (pl), wrogi (pl)
• Portuguese: malevolente (pt), malévolo (pt), mal-intencionado (pt)
• Romanian: rău intenționat
• Russian: недоброжелательный (ru) (nedobroželatelʹnyj), злорадный (ru) (zloradnyj), злонаме́ренный (ru) (zlonamérennyj)
• Spanish: malévolo, malintencionado (es)
• Swedish: illvillig (sv), illasinnad (sv)
• Turkish: kötü amaçlı, kötü niyetli, kötücül (tr)

having an evil or harmful influence

• Finnish: vahingollinen (fi)
• Irish: anchroíoch
• Japanese: marefikku (マレフィック)
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• Polish: wrogi (pl), złowrogi (pl)
• Portuguese: malévolo (pt)
• Russian: зловредный (ru) (zlovrednyj)