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| Main Entry: | malicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | awful, baleful, beastly, bitter, catty*, deleterious, detrimental, envious, evil, evil-minded, green*, green-eyed*, gross*, injurious, jealous, low, malevolent, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noxious, ornery, pernicious, petty, poisonous, spiteful, vengeful, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked, bad-natured, cussed, despiteful, ill-disposed, rancorous, resentful, uncool |
| Notes: | while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, friendly, good, kind, sympathetic, thoughtful, likeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, ingoing, probing, wounding |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
| Synonyms: | censorious, critical, damaging, defamatory, degrading, disdainful, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, opprobrious, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, aspersing, belittling, calumnious, contumelious, decrying, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, dishonoring, maligning, minimizing, reproachful, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
| Main Entry: | envious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jealous, resentful |
| Synonyms: | aspiring, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, grasping, greedy, green-eyed*, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, watchful, wishful, yearning, appetent, begrudging, coveting, fain, green with envy, grudging, longing for, umbrageous |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | fiendish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diabolical |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, beastly, cruel, demonic, devilish, diabolic, evil, hellish, inhuman, malicious, nefarious, sadistic, satanic, savage, vicious, wicked, brutish, demonical |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty*, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, dour, hateful, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, ornery*, pugnacious, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, anti*, disapproving, ill-disposed, oppugnant, rancorous, scrappy, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, cruel |
| Synonyms: | bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, spiteful, unkind, aching, afflictive, hurting, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | assisting, harmless, helpful, helping, kind, nice, aiding, relieving |
| Main Entry: | ill-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered |
| Synonyms: | catty, churlish, crabby, cross, crotchety, dirty*, disagreeable, disobliging, dyspeptic, hot-tempered, irritable, malevolent, malicious, mean, nasty, ornery*, perverse, petulant, spiteful, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, touchy, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant, crabbed, cussed, ill-humored, tempersome |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good-natured, nice, pleasant, good-tempered |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infernal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned; underworld |
| Synonyms: | accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, demonic, devilish, diabolical, execrable, fiendish, hellish, lower, malevolent, malicious, monstrous, nether, satanic, subterranean, wicked, blamed, blasted, chthonian, cussed, sulphurous |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | inhuman/inhumane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | animate, human/humane, sensate |
| Main Entry: | libel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purposeful lie about someone, often malicious |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, calumny, defamation, lying, malicious, obloquy, smear, vituperation, denigration |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | libelous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | derogatory |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, defamatory, disparaging, false, injurious, invidious, malevolent, malicious, opprobrious, pejorative, sarcastic, scurrilous, untrue, aspersive, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, debasing, depreciative, detracting, detractory, maligning, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, praising |
| Main Entry: | malevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, catty*, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked, bad-natured, despiteful, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pernicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous, injurious, killing, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mortal, nefarious, noisome, noxious, offensive, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, sinister, toxic, venomous, virulent, wicked, maleficent, miasmatic, miasmic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, loving |
| Main Entry: | poison/poisonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful |
| Synonyms: | bad, baleful, baneful, corrupt, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, fatal, hurtful, lethal, malicious, malignant, mephitic, morbid, mortal, nocuous, noisome, noxious, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, toxic, venomous, vicious, viperous, virulent, corruptive, infective, miasmatic, pestilential, septic, toxicant, toxiferous |
| Antonyms: | assisting, curing, healing, helpful, aiding, antidotal |
| Main Entry: | sneaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing*, duplicitous, furtive, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow*, guileful, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snide |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, nasty |
| Synonyms: | base, cynical, disparaging, hurtful, malicious, mean, sarcastic, scornful, sneering, spiteful, unkind, insinuating |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, lovable, loving, nice |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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