'Malicious' definitions:
Definition of 'malicious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling [ant: unmalicious]
Definition of 'Malicious'
From: GCIDE
- Malicious \Ma*li"cious\, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice.]
- 1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. [1913 Webster]
- I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act. [1913 Webster]
- Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. --Burrill.
- Malicious prosecution or Malicious arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign. [1913 Webster] -- {Ma*li"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ma*li"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'malicious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrid,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- belligerent,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- catty,
- caustic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- cussed,
- deleterious,
- despiteful,
- detrimental,
- envious,
- evil,
- full of hate,
- green,
- green-eyed,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- hostile,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- jealous,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- nasty,
- noxious,
- ornery,
- pernicious,
- petty,
- poison-pen,
- poisonous,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- set against,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- wicked