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Today's Word "Maleficent"

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maleficent \meh-LE-fi-sint\ (adjective) - Evil, intensely spiteful, causing harm to others.

"Even though Laurent loved the play by his significant other's new boyfriend, he wrote a maleficent review harshly critical of it."

 

Latin malefic-us from male "ill, evil" + -ficus "-making, -doing," from facere "to make, do." Also found in French malefique, Italian malefico, Spanish malefico. The stem "male" also appears in "malady," malevolent," "malnutrition." This adjective is a synonym of "malefic" [me-'le-fik]. "Maleficence" is the noun. The meaning is not quite that of "malevolent," which means "intending or wishing harm," though it, too, is often used in the sense of actually causing harm. The antonym of "maleficent is "beneficent" and that of "malevolent" is "benevolent."


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