different between malicious vs unkind
malicious
English
Alternative forms
- malitious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Old English yfelwillende.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?l?sh'?s, IPA(key): /m??l???s/
Adjective
malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)
- Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
- spiteful and deliberately harmful
- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Synonyms
- malevolent
- evil
- See also Thesaurus:evil
Derived terms
- maliciously
- maliciousness
- malicious mischief
Translations
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unkind
English
Etymology
From un- +? kind.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ka?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Adjective
unkind (comparative unkinder or more unkind, superlative unkindest or most unkind)
- Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. [From mid-14thC.]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
- This was the most unkindest cut of all;
- For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
- Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
- Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
- 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: W. Bowyer and Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 24, lines 968-971, p. 189,[2]
- Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find
- A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind:
- When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe,
- Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2,[3]
- Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
- 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics, Life, page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
- 1974, Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, 3rd Edition, page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
- 2000, Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. [From 13thC.]
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.
- 1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116,[5]
- Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,
- Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt
- Them to be theirs;
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
- O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
- She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
Derived terms
- unkindest cut
Related terms
- unkindly
- unkindness
Anagrams
- Dunkin, nudnik
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