malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
(adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence; “malevolent stars”; “a malefic force”
malign
(adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence; “prompted by malign motives”; “believed in witches and malign spirits”; “gave him a malign look”; “a malign lesion”
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
(verb) speak unfavorably about; “She badmouths her husband everywhere”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
malign (comparative more malign, superlative most malign)
Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
Malevolent.
(oncology) Malignant.
• benign
malign (third-person singular simple present maligns, present participle maligning, simple past and past participle maligned)
(transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
(transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
• See also defame
• Gilman, laming, lingam
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*lign", a. Etym: [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.]
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. [R.] Bacon.
Ma*lign", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maligned; p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning.] Etym: [Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.]
Definition: To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.] The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser.
2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.
Ma*lign", v. i.
Definition: To entertain malice. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.