malitious
malitious is the obsolete form of malicious.
Meaning of malicious
Adjective
malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)
- Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
- Synonyms:
- evil, maleficent, malevolent, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous
Forms of malitious
| comparative | more malitious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most malitious |
Origin of malitious
From Latin malitiōsus.
Words formed from malitious
Questions about malitious
- What is malitious the obsolete form of?
- Malitious is the obsolete form of malicious.
Words near malitious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: malitious (page history and authors); malicious (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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