malign

1. 1.

   speak unfavorably about

   “She badmouths her husband everywhere”

   Synonymsbadmouthtraducedrag through the mud

   Broaderdefame

Other forms of malign

past tense

maligned·

present participle

maligning·

third person

maligns·

comparative

maligner·

superlative

malignest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malign

What does malign mean?

malign means "evil or harmful in nature or influence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malign?

malign has 2 syllables: ma-lign. The stress falls on "lign". In IPA it is /məˈlaɪn/.

What is another word for malign?

Close synonyms include malefic, malevolent, evil, badmouth, traduce. 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.

What is the opposite of malign?

The recorded antonyms are benign.

Is malign a common word?

malign is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 malign?

34 words rhyme with malign. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.