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- pronunciation:
- m
le
v
lihnt
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
wishing or doing evil to others; ill-willed; malicious.
The spirits haunting this house are mischievous but not malevolent.Since my promotion, the administrative assistant looks at me with a malevolent glare.- antonyms:
- benevolent
- similar words:
- catty, destructive, evil, malicious, malign, malignant, miscreant, spiteful, vicious
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| related words: |
bad, bitter, cruel, destructive, diabolic, diabolical, hateful, inimical, mean, satanic, virulent, wanton |
adverb + (adj.)malevolent
neither, sometimes
(adj.)malevolent
+ adverb
instead, perhaps
(adj.)malevolent
+ noun
act,
behavior,
being,
conspiracy,
creature,
demon,
dictatorship,
eye,
force,
gaze,
geography,
ghost,
gossip,
grin,
influence,
intent,
intention,
nature,
person,
planet,
power,
practice,
presence,
purpose,
regime,
scenario,
shadow,
sorcerer,
spirit,
stage,
thought,
will,
witch
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| derivation: |
malevolently (adv.) |
The word malevolent
contains the following parts:
mal, male
Latin
root
that means bad, evil, ill
  Example words:
dismal, maladjusted, maladminister, maladroit, malady, malaise, malapropism, malapropos, malaria, malcontent, malediction, malefaction, malefactor, malefic, maleficence, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasance, malformation, malfunction, malice, malicious, malign, malignant, malinger, malnutrition, malocclusion, malodorous, malpractice, malversation
- antonyms:
- ben, bene, bon
vol
Latin
root
that means wish, intention, will
Example words:
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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