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malefactor

/ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/

malefactor noun: a criminal or felon.

Noun

malefactor (plural malefactors)

  1. A criminal or felon.
  2. An evildoer.
    • ‘Pull yourself together, Bradshaw,’ said the lawyer. ‘This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it. Poole, here, and I are going to force our way into the cabinet. If all is well, my shoulders are broad enough to bear the blame. Meanwhile, lest...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 80
    • Though your unseen malefactor’s actions may give the impression of confidence… Vaermina suspects he is terrified his plan will go astray.2013, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), April 23 2013

malefactor meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

malefactor in Urdu

بدکار, مجرم, پاپی, شریر

malefactor in Bengali

অপরাধী, মন্দ কাজে নিয়োজিত ব্যক্তি

malefactor in Malayalam

offender, wrong-doer, miscreant
കുറ്റക്കാരൻ, കുറ്റവാളി, ദുഷ്കർമ്മി, ദ്രോഹി, അപകാരി, വിരാദ്ധാവ്

malefactor in Kannada

ಕೇಡಿಗ, ಉಪದ್ರವಿ, ಅಪರಾಧಿ
More languagesFewer languages
malefactor in Arabic
شِرِّير širrīr
malefactor in Persian
بدکار badkâr

Antonyms of malefactor

Forms of malefactor

pluralmalefactors
alternative formmalefactour

Origin of malefactor

From Middle English malefactour, from Late Latin malefactor, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“evilly”) + factus (“made or done”), past participle of facio (“to make or do”).

Words formed from malefactor

Words that rhyme with malefactor

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Questions about malefactor

What does malefactor mean?
Malefactor means a criminal or felon.
What is malefactor in Urdu?
Malefactor in Urdu is بدکار, مجرم, پاپی. See Malefactor meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is malefactor?
Malefactor is a noun.
How do you pronounce malefactor?
Malefactor is pronounced /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of malefactor?
The plural of malefactor is malefactors.

Words near malefactor in the dictionary

  1. malefaction
  2. malefactions
  3. malefactive
  4. malefactives
  5. malefactivity
  6. malefactor
  7. malefactors
  8. malefactory
  9. malefactour
  10. malefactours
  11. malefactress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malefactor (page history and authors); malefactor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malefactor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malefactor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); malefactor (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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