MALICIOUS Synonyms

• wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred

• having or exerting a malignant influence

• deadly or sinister

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)

• the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

• the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

• extremely and sharply

• marked by strong resentment or cynicism

• very difficult to accept or bear

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• expressive of severe grief or regret

• proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity

• causing a sharp and acrid taste experience

• causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

• make bitter

• causing or capable of causing harm

• evoking or deserving hatred

• characterized by malice

• characterized by enmity or ill will

• not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

• troops belonging to the enemy's military forces

• impossible to bring into friendly accord

• very unfavorable to life or growth

• unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

• an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

• characterized by malice

• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

• marked by poverty befitting a beggar

• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

• of no value or worth

• very good; of the highest quality

• mean or intend to express or convey

• have as a logical consequence

• denote or connote

• have in mind as a purpose

• have a specified degree of importance

• intend to refer to

• destine or designate for a certain purpose

• offensive or even (of persons) malicious

• exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

• characterized by obscenity

• disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

• showing deep-seated resentment

• full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will

• showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite

• disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

• extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom

• marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

• disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

• showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite

• morally bad in principle or practice

• having committed unrighteous acts

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• naughtily or annoyingly playful

• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust