malevolent
adjEtymology
From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”).
- derived from malevolēns
- derived from malivolent
- inherited from *malevolent✻
Definitions
Having or displaying ill will
Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
- In Iraq the bullying continued. After she witnessed the death of a colleague, Manning felt how “with enough grief, adrenaline and fear”, war can turn anyone “amoral, even malevolent”.
Having an evil or harmful influence.
- Vela, Javier Hernández and Lozano switched positions with a thrillingly malevolent sense of purpose.
The neighborhood
- neighbormalevolence
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at malevolent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at malevolent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at malevolent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA