malevolent

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
    — In Iraq the bullying continued. After she witnessed the death of a colleague, Manning felt how “with enough grief, adrenaline and fear”, war can turn anyone “amoral, even malevolent”.
  2. Having an evil or harmful influence.
    — Vela, Javier Hernández and Lozano switched positions with a thrillingly malevolent sense of purpose.

词形变化

more malevolent comparative most malevolent superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
malevolently omnimalevolent unmalevolent
相关词
malevolence

词源

From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”).
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