Word Meanings - MALIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed

Additional info about word: MALIGN

or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon. 2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. 3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MALIGN)

• Abuse
• Injure
• damage
• spoil
• maltreat
• treat-all
• ill-use
• ill-treat
• retile
• scandalize
• disparage
• reproach
• upbraid
• asperse
• malign
• slander
• vituperate
• prostitute
• defame
• pervert
• misuse
• misemploy
• vilify
• Asperse
• Slander
• calumniate
• bespatter
• befoul
• defy
• attack
• traduce
• detract from
• blacken
• tarnish
• backbite
• Blacken
• Bespatter
• bedaub
• decry
• dishonor
• Revile
• Reproach
• abuse
• blaspheme
• Spiteful
• Malicious
• malevolent
• malignant
• ill-natured
• evilminded

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MALIGN)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to MALIGN)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• REVILEMENT
  The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• ILL-USED
  Misapplied; treated badly.
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.
• DETRACTINGLY
  In a detracting manner.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.