Hyphenation of malicious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word malicious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ma-li-cious

Definitions of malicious:

1.	Having the nature of or resulting from malice Malicious gossip Took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince- Rudyard Kipling

Synonyms of malicious:

adj	malicious, despiteful, spiteful, vindictive, leering, vixenish
adj	malevolent, beady-eyed, bitchy, catty, cattish, poisonous, venomous, vicious, venomed, hateful, maleficent, malign

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.