malediction
/ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/
malediction noun: a curse.
Noun
malediction (countable and uncountable, plural maledictions)
- A curse.
- [H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.1771, [Henry Mackenzie], “His Skill in Physiognomy”, in The Man of Feeling, 2nd edition, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 94
- In view of all that we have said in the foregoing sections, the many obstacles we appear to have surmounted, what casts the pall over our victory celebration? It is the curse of dimensionality, a malediction that has plagued the scientist from earliest days.1961, Richard Bellman, Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour, Princeton University Press, page 94
- Antonyms:
- benediction
- Evil speech.
malediction meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
malediction in Tamil
- சாபம், சாபமொழி, சாவனை, சாவமொழி, சாவம்
malediction in Urdu
- بددعا, کوسنا, لعنت, پھٹ
malediction in Bengali
- অভিশাপ, অভিশাপ প্রদান
malediction in Malayalam
- damnation, curse, oath
- ശാപം, പ്രാക്ക്, പിരാക്ക്, അഭിശാപം, നാവേറ്, അഭിശംസനം
More languagesFewer languages
- malediction in Kannada
- ಉಸುರಿಡುಗೆ, ಬಯ್ಗಳು, ಬೈಗುಳ, ಬೈಗುಳು
Antonyms of malediction
Forms of malediction
| plural | maledictions |
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Origin of malediction
From late Middle English malediccion, from Middle French malédiction, from Latin maledictiō (“curse”) from malus (“evil”) + dictiō (“speech”) noun of action from perfect passive participle dictus (“spoken”), from verb dīcō (“speak”).
Words formed from malediction
Words that rhyme with malediction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
30 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- fiction
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about malediction
- What does malediction mean?
- Malediction means a curse.
- What is malediction in Tamil?
- Malediction in Tamil is சாபம், சாபமொழி, சாவனை. See Malediction meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is malediction?
- Malediction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce malediction?
- Malediction is pronounced /ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of malediction?
- The plural of malediction is maledictions.
Words near malediction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: malediction (page history and authors); malediction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malediction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malediction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malediction (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); malediction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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