What does malefic mean?

malefic means "having or exerting a malignant influence".

How many syllables are in malefic?

malefic has 3 syllables and divides as ma-le-fic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for malefic?

Close synonyms include malevolent, malign, evil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malefic a common word?

malefic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Malefic — meaning, 3 synonyms and examples

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
having or exerting a malignant influence
“malevolent stars”
“a malefic force”
Synonymsmalevolent malign evil
Similarmaleficent

Questions about malefic

What does malefic mean?: malefic means "having or exerting a malignant influence".
How many syllables are in malefic?: malefic has 3 syllables and divides as ma-le-fic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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