Usually means: Wishing harm towards others; malicious.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. malevolent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. malevolent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. malevolent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. malevolent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. malevolent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Malevolent, malevolent: Wordnik
  7. malevolent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. malevolent: Wiktionary
  9. malevolent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. malevolent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Malevolent, malevolent: Dictionary.com
  12. malevolent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Malevolent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Malevolent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. malevolent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. malevolent: Rhymezone
  17. malevolent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. malevolent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. malevolent: Free Dictionary
  20. malevolent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. malevolent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. malevolent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. malevolent: Infoplease Dictionary

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  1. malevolent: Legal dictionary

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  1. malevolent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. malevolent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
adjective:  Having an evil or harmful influence.

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