Malignant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil.
  • adj. Highly injurious; pernicious.
  • adj. Pathology Threatening to life; virulent: a malignant disease.
  • adj. Pathology Tending to metastasize; cancerous. Used of a tumor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
  • adj. Harmfully cancerous; as a malignant tumor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
  • adj. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
  • adj. Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent.
  • n. A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.
  • n. One of the adherents of Charles I. or Charles II.; -- so called by the opposite party.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to inflict suffering or cause distress; having extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently hostile; malicious: as, a malignant heart.
  • Virulently harmful or mischievous; threatening great danger; pernicious in influence or effect.
  • Specifically
  • In astrology, threatening to fortune or life; fateful: as, the malignant aspect of the stars.
  • In pathology, virulent; tending; to produce death; threatening a fatal issue: as, a malignant ulcer; a malignant fever; malignant pustule or scarlet fever.
  • Extremely heinous: as, the malignant nature of sin.
  • Synonyms Malevolent, bitter, rancorous, spiteful, malign. See animosity.
  • n. A person of extreme enmity or evil intentions; an ill-affected person.
  • n. Specifically, in English history, one of the adherents of Charles I. and his son Charles II. during the civil war; a Royalist; a Cavalier: so called by the Roundheads, the opposite party.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
  • Equivalent
    cancerous   
    Antonym
    benign   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    malicious    pernicious    virulent    malevolent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    indignant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    malicious    malevolent    wicked    vindictive    destructive    vile    treacherous    hateful    inhuman    selfish