disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.-characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.-tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.-a man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.-one of the adherents of charles l. or charles ll.; -- so called by the opposite party.