Word: maligned
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: ma
ligned
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of malign; evil or harmful in nature or influence
Morphemes:
Affix: malign
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: malus
Language: la
Decoded: malus
Meaning: bad
Affix: genus
Language: la
Decoded: genus
Meaning: sort, kind
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.