Malvado VS maléfico

Question

Are these just direct synonyms or is there some reason to use one vs the other?

Probablemente sea su primera risa maléfica.

Maléfico/a is not a word I have ever heard before.

Probablemente sea su primera risa malvada. Would that work?

Is malvado/a more literal and maléfico/a more figurative? I wonder about that.

Gracias.

Answer 1

Yes, both words are synonyms, but the word maléfico is relative a witchcraft things!

I agree with this. Maléfico is directly related to "maleficio", a curse, an act of witchcraft. - Gekkosan, Nov 18, 2011

(Not that people necessarily think quite that far when they utter the word, though). - Gekkosan, Nov 18, 2011

Answer 2

Hello Jeezzle

Malvado means wicked, vilain. Beeing bad on purpose. and maléfico means evil, demoniac, Beeing bad by nature.

In some case they could be synonimous.

Answer 3

Malvado is also used as a noun, so it refers to a person´s basic bad character.

Maléfico is an adjective and refers to a person who does bad things, but does not necessarily have the character of always being bad.

Both can mean either bad or evil, just as the position of malo can can be one or the other, ie una mala persona (a bad person) and una persona mala (an evil person).

Answer 4

ambas palabras pueden tener una significa ''persona que practica hechicerías''.Por eso puedan ser sinónimo.Por ultimo pienso que hechicero se puede pensar como otro sinonimo.

Answer 5

las bat fes oo