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 (hy) ‎(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)
• Polish: złośliwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: malicioso (pt), maldoso (pt)
• Romanian: malițios (ro) m, răutăcios (ro) m, răutăcioasă f
• Russian: злой (ru) ‎(zloj), зло́бный (ru) ‎(zlóbnyj), зло́стный (ru) ‎(zlóstnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan (sh), zlȍban (sh)
• Slovene: zloben, hudoben
• Spanish: maligno (es)
• Swedish: uppsåtlig (sv)

Deliberately harmful; spiteful

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

• Norwegian: ondsinnet
• Polish: złowrogi (pl) m, zły (pl) m, wrogi (pl) m
• Russian: злоумы́шленный (ru) ‎(zloumýšlennyj), злонаме́ренный (ru) ‎(zlonamérennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan (sh), zlonámjēran (sh)
• Slovene: škodoželjen (sl)
• Swedish: ond (sv), elak (sv), maliciös (sv), uppsåtlig (sv)