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Hostile attitude or feeling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- to show someone malevolence
- He said it with malevolence.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the quality of threatening evil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: malevolency, malice
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: evil, evilness
Narrower terms: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness, cruelty, cruelness, harshness, beastliness, meanness
wishing evil to others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: malignity
Antonyms: benevolence
Broader terms: hate, hatred
Narrower terms: maleficence, malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom, vindictiveness, vengefulness
From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
չարակամություն
(čʻarakamutʻyun)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Belarusian:
варожасць
(varóžascʹ)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Belarusian:
нядобразычлівасць
(njadóbrazyčlivascʹ)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Bulgarian:
злоба
(zloba)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Bulgarian:
неприязън
(neprijazǎn)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Catalan:
malevolència
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Chinese Mandarin:
敵意 /敌意
(díyì)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Chinese Mandarin:
反感
(fǎngǎn)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Chinese Mandarin:
惡意 /恶意
(èyì)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Dutch:
kwaadwil
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Dutch:
vijandigheid
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Dutch:
moedwil
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Dutch:
misgunst
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Dutch:
malevolentie
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Finnish:
pahantahtoisuus
— hostile attitude or feeling
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French:
malveillance
— hostile attitude or feeling
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French:
hostilité
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Galician:
malevolencia
— hostile attitude or feeling
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German:
Böswilligkeit
— hostile attitude or feeling
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German:
Missgunst
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Greek:
εμπάθεια
(empátheia)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Greek:
κακοβουλία
(kakovoulía)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Greek:
μοχθηρία
(mochthiría)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Ancient Greek:
κᾰκοθῡμίᾱ
(kăkothūmíā)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Italian:
malevolenza
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Northern Kurdish:
bedniyetî
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Northern Kurdish:
belakirrî
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Latin:
malevolentia
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Lushootseed:
sbabibəɬ
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Macedonian:
зло́ба
(zlóba)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Navajo:
iiníziin
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Old English:
yfelwillendnes
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Polish:
wrogość
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Polish:
złowrogość
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Portuguese:
malevolência
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Romanian:
rea-voință
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Romanian:
ostilitate
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Romanian:
pizmă
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Russian:
злопыха́тельство
(zlopyxátelʹstvo)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Russian:
недоброжела́тельность
(nedobroželátelʹnostʹ)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Russian:
вражде́бность
(vraždébnostʹ)
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Spanish:
malevolencia
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Welsh:
malais
— hostile attitude or feeling
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Chinese Mandarin:
敵對行為 /敌对行为
(díduì xíngwéi)
— behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude
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Chinese Mandarin:
敵意行為 /敌意行为
(díyì xíngwéi)
— behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude
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Chinese Mandarin:
對抗行為 /对抗行为
(duìkàng xíngwéi)
— behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude
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Finnish:
pahantahtoisuus
— behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude