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Etymology[edit]
From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Old English yfelwillende.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)
- Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
- spiteful and deliberately harmful
- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
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Translations[edit]
of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
- Armenian: նենգ (hy) (neng)
- Bulgarian: зло́бен (bg) (zlóben), зло́стен (bg) (zlósten)
- Catalan: maliciós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡意的 (zh), 恶意的 (zh) (èyì de), 惡毒的 (zh), 恶毒的 (zh) (èdú de), 懷恨的 (zh), 怀恨的 (zh) (huáihèn de), 心懷叵測的 (zh), 心怀叵测的 (zh) (xīnhuáipǒcè de), 蓄意的 (zh) (xùyì de)
- Czech: záludný (cs)
- Danish: maliciøs
- Dutch: boos (nl), kwaad (nl), kwaadaardig (nl)
- Estonian: pahatahtlik
- Finnish: ilkeä (fi)
- French: malveillant (fr)
- Galician: malicioso
- German: böse (de), boshaft (de), malitiös
- Greek: κακόβουλος (el) (kakóvoulos), κακεντρεχής (el) (kakentrechís), μοχθηρός (el) (mochthirós), κακοήθης (el) (kakoḯthis)
- Ancient: κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs)
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- Ido: mal-vol-anta, maligna (io)
- Indonesian: hasad (id), jahat (id)
- Italian: doloso (it), cattivo (it), malizioso (it), malevole (it)
- Japanese: 悪意のある (ja) (あくいのある, akui no aru)
- Macedonian: малициозен (maliciozen), злобен (zloben), пакосен (pakosen)
- Polish: złośliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: malicioso (pt), maldoso (pt)
- Romanian: malițios (ro), răutăcios (ro)
- 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)
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deliberately harmful; spiteful
- Armenian: նենգ (hy) (neng)
- Azerbaijani: pis məqsədli, qərəzli, pisniyyət, pisniyyətli
- Bulgarian: злонамерен (bg) (zlonameren)
- Catalan: maliciós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡意的 (zh), 恶意的 (zh) (èyì de), 惡毒的 (zh), 恶毒的 (zh) (èdú de), 懷恨的 (zh), 怀恨的 (zh) (huáihèn de), 心懷叵測的 (zh), 心怀叵测的 (zh) (xīnhuáipǒcè de), 蓄意的 (zh) (xùyì de)
- Czech: škodolibý (cs), zlomyslný (cs), zlovolný
- Esperanto: malica
- Finnish: pahansuopa (fi), pahantahtoinen (fi)
- French: mauvais (fr)
- Greek: μοχθηρός (el) (mochthirós)
- Ancient: κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs)
- Indonesian: berniat jahat
- Macedonian: недобронамерен (nedobronameren), злонамерен (zlonameren)
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- Malay: berniat jahat
- Maori: waniwani, whakakinokino, hīkaka, kikokiko
- Norwegian: ondsinnet
- Polish: złowrogi (pl), zły (pl), wrogi (pl)
- Russian: злоумы́шленный (ru) (zloumýšlennyj), злонаме́ренный (ru) (zlonamérennyj)
- Sanskrit: दुर्जन (sa) (durjana)
- Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan (sh), zlonámjēran (sh)
- Slovak: zloprajný, zlovoľný, zlomyseľný
- Slovene: škodoželjen (sl)
- Swedish: ond (sv), elak (sv), maliciös (sv), uppsåtlig (sv)
- Turkish: kötü niyetli, kötü amaçlı, kötücül (tr)
- Westrobothnian: nåk
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