Malignant vs Vindictive - What's the difference?
malignant | vindictive |
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
* 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
Having a tendency to seek revenge when , vengeful.
* {{quote-book
, year=1920
, author=D. H. Lawrence
, title=Women in Love
, chapter=18
* {{quote-book
, year=1933
, author=H. G. Wells
, title=The Shape of Things to Come
(obsolete) punitive
As adjectives the difference between malignant and vindictive
is that malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious while vindictive is having a tendency to seek revenge when , vengeful.As a noun malignant
is .malignant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
- malignant diphtheria
- a malignant tumor
Antonyms
* (medicine) benignNoun
(en noun)- As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants
vindictive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.}}
citation, passage=The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.}}