malign

malign is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
2. adjective. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
3. adjective. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
4. adjective. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
5. adjective. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
6. intransitive verb. To entertain malice.
7. verb. speak unfavorably about

   "She badmouths her husband everywhere"

   Synonyms: badmouth, traduce

8. adjective. having or exerting a malignant influence

   "malevolent stars"

   "a malefic force"

   Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent

9. adjective. evil or harmful in nature or influence

   "prompted by malign motives"

   "believed in witches and malign spirits"

Synonyms

badmouth, traduce, evil, malefic, malevolent

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in malign:

gilman, laming, lingam

Common word forms

maligns, maligned, maligner, malignly, maligning, malignity, malignment

Words from these letters

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