Malicious vs Cruel - What's the difference?
malicious | cruel |
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
Not nice; mean; heartless.
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
Cruel is a synonym of malicious.
As adjectives the difference between malicious and cruel
is that malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite while cruel is not nice; mean; heartless.As a verb cruel is
to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success.malicious
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Synonyms
* malevolent * evil * See alsoDerived terms
* maliciously * maliciousness * malicious mischiefcruel
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.