Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
- 2adjective
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
- 3adjective
Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
- 4adjective
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
- 5adjective
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
- 6intransitive verb
To entertain malice.
- 7verb
speak unfavorably about
"She badmouths her husband everywhere"
- 8adjective
having or exerting a malignant influence
"malevolent stars"
"a malefic force"
Synonyms
- 9adjective
evil or harmful in nature or influence
"prompted by malign motives"
"believed in witches and malign spirits"
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