Word Meanings - MALIGNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature

Additional info about word: MALIGNITY

1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. Syn. -- See Malice.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MALIGNITY)

• Animosity
• Hatred
• antipathy
• dissention
• aversion
• acrimony
• feud
• strife
• rancor
• antagonism
• bitterness
• acerbity
• hostility
• enmity
• malice
• anger
• malevolence
• ill-will
• malignity
• feeling against
• Enmity
• Discord
• hate
• maliciousness
• ill-feeling
• animosity
• opposition
• asperity
• Rancor
• Ill-blood
• spite
• grudge
• hatred
• vindictiveness
• Virulence
• Venom
• poison
• malignancy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MALIGNITY)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal

Related words: (words related to MALIGNITY)

• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• RANCOR
  The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. --
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
  1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• SPITE
  1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• RANCOROUS
  Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• HATRED
  Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ENMITY
  1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred;
• VENOMOUS
  Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• OUTVENOM
  To exceed in venom.
• ENVENOM
  1. To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . .
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• SPIT-VENOM
  Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. Hooker.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.