Malicious vs Baneful - What's the difference?
malicious | baneful |
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
Deadly or sinister.
Portending disaster.
(archaic) Poisonous.
As adjectives the difference between malicious and baneful
is that malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite while baneful is exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.malicious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.