Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Hostile attitude or feeling.

    to show someone malevolence

    He said it with malevolence.

    Böswilligkeit, Missgunst

    злопыха́тельствоzlopyxátelʹstvo, недоброжела́тельностьnedobroželátelʹnostʹ, вражде́бностьvraždébnostʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.

More definitions
  • the quality of threatening evil
  • wishing evil to others

Examples

1 sentences

  1. I will fight back against Tom's malevolence.

    Ergulis · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
hostile attitude or feeling:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hostile attitude or feeling:

Origin

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from male

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: malevolences
Singularmalevolence
Pluralmalevolences

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
attitude or feeling:maliceC2spiteB2ill-will
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
benevolenceB2

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmalevolent
Derivedomnimalevolence

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
malariaB2malarkeymaleB1malevolentmalformationmalfunctionC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

malevolence — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto