ADJECTIVE | all | maleficent | harmful or evil in intent or effect |
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Meaning | harmful or evil in intent or effect. | |
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Attribute of | maleficence, mischief, balefulness | The quality or nature of being harmful or evil |
Narrower | baleful, baneful | deadly or sinister |
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil | Having or exerting a malignant influence | |
See also | malign | Evil or harmful in nature or influence |
Opposite | beneficent | doing or producing good |
Spanish | maléfico | |
Nouns | maleficence | the quality or nature of being harmful or evil |
maleficence | doing or causing evil |
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