Malicious
Meaning of Malicious
Intending to harm, upset or damage someone or something.
ما معنى كلمة Malicious بالعربي؟
خبيث أو ذو نية سيئة
😈⚠️ خبيث أو ذو نية سيئة؛ يقصد الإضرار بالناس أو الأنظمة؛ ضار متعمّد في السلوك أو البرمجيات ⚠️😈
قصة GL: رفض نايف طلال العيسى أي تلاعب خبيث بنتائج HBDNF (88.77%) — الصدق العلمي خط أحمر، وحماية منصات GL من البرمجيات والنوايا الخبيثة تحفظ ثقة الطلاب خلال 43 يوماً من التدريب 🌟
Malicious in a sentence
The court found the false claims were malicious.
GL Research protected its data from malicious tampering.
Genetic Invent's security team blocked malicious software.
Genetic G Learning tutors teach students to spot malicious links.
Origin of Malicious
From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia, badness.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, malicious describes deliberate harm, from cyber attacks to false allegations. Data integrity is a firm line.
Malicious audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "malicious" — an adjective, pronounced /məˈlɪʃəs/, with the stress on "lish".
Narrator: Malicious means intending harm — driven by the desire to hurt, damage, or distress: malicious gossip, malicious damage, malicious software.
Narrator: In plain English, the malicious act is harm done on purpose — not carelessness, not accident: intent, with teeth.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin "malitia" — badness, spite — from "malus", bad: the root that darkens malice, malign, and malware alike.
Narrator: Law leans on the intent — malicious damage, malicious prosecution, malice aforethought: the difference between misfortune and crime is often this one adjective.
Narrator: Computing compressed it — malicious software became "malware" in the 1990s, and "malicious code" now headlines every security bulletin.
Narrator: Everyday speech keeps the social sting — malicious rumours and malicious glee: small cruelties, deliberately served.
Narrator: In tone it is accusatory and grave — courtrooms, security reports, and serious complaints.
Narrator: So remember: malicious means harm meant — the bad deed with a motive signed to it.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Neighbourhood intrigue — someone's been leaving one-star reviews on the new café, all fake dishes they never serve! The owner called them malicious, and honestly, the word fits like a glove.
Speaker B: Perfectly fitted — malicious means intending harm. Not a disappointed customer, but someone WANTING the café hurt. Intent is the word's whole engine.
Speaker A: That's the line, isn't it — a bad review is opinion; a fake bad review is malice!
Speaker B: Exactly the legal instinct too — law splits worlds on this adjective. Accidental damage is a claim; MALICIOUS damage is a crime. "Malice aforethought" — harm planned in advance — is the phrase that turns killing into murder.
Speaker A: One adjective doing courtroom heavy-lifting! And the roots?
Speaker B: Latin "malus", bad — the dark family patriarch. Malice, malign, malevolent, malady... and computing's contribution: malware, squeezed from "malicious software" in the nineties.
Speaker A: So every virus warning carries a Latin curse! Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She dismissed the story as malicious gossip"; "the fire was started with malicious intent"; "the email contained a malicious attachment" — society, law, and inboxes.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with the word?
Speaker B: Inflating carelessness into malice — a colleague who forgets your meeting is thoughtless, not malicious; the word requires the WISH to harm. Accusing someone of malice when they were merely clumsy escalates everything.
Speaker A: Never attribute to malice what carelessness explains — I've heard that rule!
Speaker B: Hanlon's razor, the peacekeeping principle! And mind the near-synonyms: "spiteful" is malice in petty, personal doses; "malevolent" is the grand brooding version — malevolent forces; "vicious" adds violence to the intent. "Malicious" is the courtroom-precise one: harm, meant.
Speaker A: Spite for the small, malevolence for the grand, malicious for the provable! And the café?
Speaker B: Report the reviews, keep the receipts — platforms remove provably malicious ones. The word that fits like a glove, fortunately, also fits in a complaint form!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "malicious" in AI prompts — security's precision word: it separates the attacker from the clumsy user, and good systems treat them differently.
Speaker A: So malicious in a prompt targets intentional abuse?
Speaker B: Exactly. For input safety, you'd write:
Prompt: Protect my forms from malicious input — scripts, injection attempts, and oversized payloads rejected at the boundary, while honest typos get friendly validation messages. Attackers blocked, users forgiven, so security never punishes clumsiness.
Speaker B: The word "malicious" draws the line — hostile input handled differently from mistakes.
Speaker A: Hanlon's razor, implemented! What about uploads?
Speaker B: The customs check:
Prompt: Scan uploads for malicious files in my app — type verified against contents not just the name, executables refused, and suspicious files quarantined with the uploader notified. Every parcel inspected, so the attachment trick dies at the door.
Speaker A: The malicious attachment, turned away politely!
Speaker B: Firmly and politely. For user behaviour:
Prompt: Detect malicious account activity in my app — mass scraping, rapid-fire fake content, and coordinated review bombing flagged for moderator review with the evidence attached. Patterns of intent spotted, so the café-review saboteur meets the moderator.
Speaker A: My neighbourhood villain, algorithmically caught! What about links?
Speaker B: The escort service:
Prompt: Handle user-posted links safely in my community app — known malicious domains blocked, external links opened with a leaving-site warning, and shorteners expanded before display. Destinations shown honestly, so no click walks blind.
Speaker A: Could malicious thinking shape permissions too?
Speaker B: The insider prompt:
Prompt: Limit the damage a malicious insider could do in my app — no single account able to delete everything, destructive actions requiring a second approval, and all admin activity logged immutably. Trust verified, not assumed, so one bad hire can't burn the building.
Speaker A: So "malicious" filters the input, inspects the parcels, spots the patterns, escorts the links, and caps the insiders.
Speaker B: Exactly — the harm-meant word: name the intent in your prompt, and the AI builds for the enemy, not just the error.
Frequently asked questions about Malicious
What does Malicious mean?
Intending to harm, upset or damage someone or something.
ما معنى كلمة Malicious بالعربي؟
خبيث أو ذو نية سيئة — 😈⚠️ خبيث أو ذو نية سيئة؛ يقصد الإضرار بالناس أو الأنظمة؛ ضار متعمّد في السلوك أو البرمجيات ⚠️😈
How do you pronounce Malicious?
Malicious is pronounced /məˈlɪʃəs/ and is used as an adjective.
How is Malicious used in a sentence?
The court found the false claims were malicious.
What are synonyms of Malicious?
spiteful, malevolent, vindictive, hostile, harmful, malign.