Our word is Malevolent
[muh-lev-uh-luhnt]
It's an adjective.
Definitions:
1. wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
2. evil; harmful; injurious: a malevolent inclination to destroy the happiness of others.
3. Astrology . evil or malign in influence.
In my own words, I would say that malevolent basically means evil or wanting to harm another person.
Sentences-
1. The robber got put in jail because he was malevolent of bill gates, that's why he tried to steal from his superfluous amount of money.
2. Frieza is malevolent, he destroys planets and innocent people just because he feels like it.
This picture Describes malevolent because this is a picture of freiza from dragon ball Z. Freiza has destroyed planets and civilizations and he is a power hungry evil villain. This video goes along with malevolent because of the same reasons for the picture. The video and the picture support eachother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwOxp_4z458&feature=related
( The links don't work so just copy paste these URL's to another internet explorer window and the videos will pop-up)
The explanation is the same as the explanation of the picture. frieza is the one in the video who blows up the planet and is laughing.
Synonyms-
mny word is a lot like jealous because jealous is when you want something someone else has. It's different though because malevolent means you want to cause harm or evil to that person, jealous doesen't always mean you want to hurt the other person or anything.
Antonyms-
An antonym of malevolent is benevolence, which means the desire to do good to others. Malevolent means evil or wanting to do harm to others. These words are the exact opposite meaning and they're self explanatory.
I would give this word a 4 out of 5 stars. I've heard this word many times but i never knew what it fully meant, which means there's probably a lot of people that don't know what it means so it's not a word you want to use often. The positives outweigh the negatives though because malevolent has many meanings and it describes an evil person better than saying just "evil" or "bad".
The best time to use this is with people smarter than you like in a job interview, school, essays, or whenever your trying to get a point across that someone is very evil and bad. I wouldn't use this word with young kids or people that are'nt high school graduates because they most likley wouldn't know the meaning of this word.
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