malicious

§English

§Alternative forms

• malitious (obsolete)

§Etymology

From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”).

§Adjective

malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
2. spiteful and deliberately harmful

   He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

§Synonyms

• malevolent
• evil
• See also Wikisaurus:evil

§Derived terms

• maliciously
• maliciousness
• malicious mischief

§Translations

Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite

• Armenian: նենգ (neng)
• Bulgarian: злобен (bg) (zlóben), злостен (bg) (zlósten)
• Catalan: maliciós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡意的 (zh), 恶意的 (zh) (èyì de)

• Czech: záludný (cs)
• Dutch: boos (nl), kwaad (nl), kwaadaardig (nl)
• French: malveillant (fr)
• German: böse (de), boshaft (de)
• Greek: κακόβουλος (el) m (kakóvoulos), κακεντρεχής (el) m (kakentrechís), μοχθηρός (el) m (mochthirós), κακοήθης (el) (kakoíthis)

• Ido: mal-vol-anta, maligna (io)
• Italian: doloso (it), cattivo (it), malizioso (it), malevole
• Japanese: 悪意のある (ja) (あくいのある, akui no aru)
• Portuguese: malicioso (pt), maldoso (pt)
• Romanian: malitios m
• Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), злобный (ru) (zlóbnyj), злостный (ru) (zlóstnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan, zlȍban
• Spanish: maligno (es)
• Swedish: uppsåtlig (sv)

Deliberately harmful; spiteful

• Armenian: նենգ (neng)
• Catalan: maliciós
• Czech: škodolibý, zlomyslný
• Esperanto: malica
• French: mauvais (fr)
• Greek: μοχθηρός (el) m (mochthirós)
• Maori: waniwani, whakakinokino, hīkaka

• Norwegian: ondsinnet
• Russian: злоумышленный (ru) (zloumýšlennyj), злонамеренный (ru) (zlonamérennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan, zlonámjēran
• Swedish: ond (sv), elak (sv), maliciös (sv), uppsåtlig (sv)