Malicious vs Temperamental - What's the difference?
malicious | temperamental |
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
(notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament
subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.
As adjectives the difference between malicious and temperamental
is that malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite while temperamental is (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament.malicious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
