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MALEFICENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maleficent mean?
• MALEFICENT (adjective)
The adjective MALEFICENT has 1 sense:
1. harmful or evil in intent or effect
Familiarity information: MALEFICENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harmful or evil in intent or effect
Similar:
baleful; baneful (deadly or sinister)
evil; malefic; malevolent; malign (having or exerting a malignant influence)
Also:
malign (evil or harmful in nature or influence)
Attribute:
balefulness; maleficence; mischief (the quality or nature of being harmful or evil)
Antonym:
beneficent (doing or producing good)
Derivation:
maleficence (the quality or nature of being harmful or evil)
maleficence (doing or causing evil)
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