Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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malicious

/məˈlɪʃəs/ adjective

Forms malitious

adjective Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice. “He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.”

Synonyms

evil maleficent malevolent abandoned arrant bad bad apple bad seed baleful scurrilous baneful base black-hearted dark deleterious demonic depraved despicable detrimental devilish

Antonyms

unmalicious

Etymology

From Middle English malicious, from Old French malicios, from Latin malitiōsus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Middle English ivelwilled and ivelwilly (“malicious”), related to Old English yfelwillende (literally “evil-willing”). By surface analysis, malice + -ious.

Webster’s 1913

adjective Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
adjective Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.

Etymology [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “malicious”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “malicious” (best matches first).

अनभिद्रुह् an-abhidruh not malicious.
साभ्यसूय sābhyasūya full of envy, envious, malicious.
ह्वार hvāra dishonest, malicious, (Sāy. = kuṭila. )
अर्शान arśāna striving to hurt, malicious; ( as ), m. fire.
अरातीवन् arātī-van not offering, not giving; unfriendly, malicious.
कुमेधस् ku-medhas (see 1. ku ), of little intellect, stupid; malicious.
अघाय aghāya aghāyati, yitum, to be malicious, to sin, to threaten.
वैरिन् vairin hostile, malicious, revengeful; ( ī ), m. a hero; an enemy.

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