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Antonyms for malefic
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : muh-lef-ik |
Phonetic Transcription : məˈlɛf ɪk |
- advantageous
- aiding
- assisting
- auspicious
- beneficial
- beneficient
- benevolent
- benign
- blessed
- bright
- cheerful
- encouraging
- favorable
- fortunate
- friendly
- gentle
- good
- happy
- harmless
- healthful
- healthy
- helpful
- honest
- hopeful
- joyful
- kind
- life-giving
- light
- lucky
- nice
- nourishing
- pleasant
- praising
- profitable
- promising
- propitious
- safe
- secure
- sunny
- trivial
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- unpoisonous
- upright
- vital
- wholesome
Definition of malefic
Origin :- 1650s, from Latin maleficus "wicked, vicious, criminal," from male "ill" (see mal-) + -ficus, from stem of facere "to make, do" (see factitious).
- As in malign : adj hurtful, injurious
- As in ominous : adj menacing, foreboding
- As in baneful : adj ruinous, injurious
- As in sinister : adj nasty, menacing
- As in venomous : adj poisonous; hateful
- As in fatal : adj deadly, lethal
- As in harmful : adj injurious, hurtful
- A sort of malefic magnetism exuded from every pore of his skin.
- Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- What malefic jest of Fate led her to select the story of Georgie-Porgie?
- Extract from : « Wandering Heath » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- We consider ourselves as soldiers waging battle against the blind, malefic forces of nature.
- Extract from : « The Pros and Cons of Vivisection » by Charles Richet
- The malefic Powers of savages have generally been absorbed by higher beings or have otherwise disappeared.
- Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy
- Saturn and Mars are causers of evil or malefic; the first from his excess of cold, and the other from his excess of heat.
- Extract from : « The Influence of the Stars » by Rosa Baughan
- But if the malefic influence is too powerful for them to avert, then they cause death in the various manners above described.
- Extract from : « The Influence of the Stars » by Rosa Baughan
- We know few places where all the virtues, unchoked by the malefic weeds of vice, grow more luxuriantly.
- Extract from : « Dona Perfecta » by B. Perez Galdos
- And who, he asked, can allege one immoral deed, one malefic practice against the noble wife of the conqueror of Britain?
- Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
- It seemed that Troilus exercised some strange and malefic influence over his companion, who was taken with fever.
- Extract from : « Jerome Cardan » by William George Waters
- It would almost seem as if some influence, malefic or otherwise, was stirring the good King Suddhodana.
- Extract from : « The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity » by Arthur Lillie
Synonyms for malefic
- accidentally on purpose
- adverse
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- apocalyptic
- augural
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- blackhearted
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- catty
- clouded
- consumptive
- corroding
- corrupt
- corrupting
- crippling
- cussed
- damaging
- dangerous
- dark
- deadly
- deathly
- deleterious
- despiteful
- destructive
- detrimental
- dire
- direful
- dirty
- disadvantageous
- disastrous
- dishonest
- dismal
- disquieting
- doomed
- doomful
- evil
- fatal
- fateful
- fearful
- final
- forbidding
- foreboding
- gloomy
- grim
- harassing
- harmful
- hateful
- haunting
- hostile
- hurtful
- ill-boding
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- impending
- inauspicious
- incendiary
- incurable
- inevitable
- inhospitable
- inimical
- injurious
- internecine
- killing
- lethal
- lowering
- malefic
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malicious
- malificent
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- menacing
- mephitic
- minatory
- mischievous
- mortal
- mortiferous
- murderous
- nocuous
- noxious
- obnoxious
- ominous
- ornery
- painful
- perilous
- pernicious
- perverse
- pestiferous
- pestilent
- pestilential
- poisonous
- portentous
- precursive
- premonitory
- presaging
- prescient
- prophetic
- rancorous
- risky
- ruinous
- savage
- sinful
- sinister
- spiteful
- subversive
- suggestive
- terminal
- threatening
- toxic
- toxicant
- undermining
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- unhealthy
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unsafe
- unwholesome
- venomous
- vicious
- vindictive
- viperish
- viperous
- virulent
- waspish
- wicked
- woeful
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