Meaning

1 senses
  1. A term or sentence element that serves a malefactive role or that is inflected for the malefactive case.

Origin

Parallel in formation with both malefactor and maleficent (which see). By surface analysis

Parallel in formation with both malefactor and maleficent (which see). By surface analysis, Latin malefact(us) + -ive.

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Forms

plural: malefactives
Singularmalefactive
Pluralmalefactives

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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