malicious

Questions about malicious

What does malicious mean?

malicious means "having the nature of or resulting from malice".

How many syllables are in malicious?

malicious has 3 syllables: ma-lic-ious. The stress falls on "lic". In IPA it is /məˈlɪʃəs/.

What is the opposite of malicious?

The recorded antonyms are unmalicious.

Is malicious a common word?

malicious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with malicious?

1 word rhymes with malicious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.