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malignant
[ muh-lig-nuhnt ]
adjective
- disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
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Antonyms:
- very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- Pathology.
- tending to produce death, as bubonic plague.
- (of a tumor) characterized by uncontrolled growth; cancerous, invasive, or metastatic.
Antonyms:
malignant
/ 尘蓹藞濒瑟伞苍蓹苍迟 /
adjective
- having or showing desire to harm others
- tending to cause great harm; injurious
- pathol (of a tumour) uncontrollable or resistant to therapy; rapidly spreading
noun
- history (in the English Civil War) a Parliamentarian term for a royalist
malignant
- Tending to have a destructive clinical course, as a malignant illness.
- Relating to cancer cells that are invasive and tend to metastasize. Malignant tumor cells are histologically more primitive than normal tissue.
- Compare benign
malignant
- A descriptive term for things or conditions that threaten life or well-being. Malignant is the opposite of benign .
Notes
Derived Forms
- 尘补藞濒颈驳苍补苍迟濒测, adverb
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 尘补路濒颈驳顎僴补苍迟路濒测 adverb
- 苍辞苍顎卪补路濒颈驳顎僴补苍迟 adjective
- non顎叧静孤繁艟辈殿僴补苍迟路濒测 adverb
- 蝉别尘顎卛路尘补路濒颈驳顎僴补苍迟 adjective
- sem顎卛路尘补路濒颈驳顎僴补苍迟路濒测 adverb
- 耻苍顎卪补路濒颈驳顎僴补苍迟 adjective
- un顎叧静孤繁艟辈殿僴补苍迟路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of malignant1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of malignant1
Example Sentences
Ellen felt herself grow 鈥10 feet tall and very thin and very powerful and malignant.鈥
This independent streak is quintessentially American, we like to tell ourselves, and it can expand to malignant extremes.
Diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue, Duong has a malignant mass blocking blood flow to his optic nerve.
The new abnormal and unhealthy reality 鈥 what Yale University psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton refers to as 鈥渕alignant normality鈥 鈥 will become the norm across American society.
Last month, my son reached two years in remission from a rare, malignant cancer that almost took his eye and his life.
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Malignant Vs. Benign
What鈥檚 the difference between malignant and benign?
In a medical context, the word malignant is used to describe harmful masses or tumors that are cancerous and that grow and spread disease. The word benign is the opposite鈥攊t鈥檚 used to describe masses or tumors that are not cancerous (those that do not spread disease to other parts of the body).
Both words are sometimes also used in general ways. Malignant can mean harmful or intended or intending to cause harm, while benign can mean kind, favorable, or gracious.
The best clue to help remember their meanings is the prefix mal-, which means 鈥渂ad鈥 and shows up in a lot of other negative words, such as malfunction, malpractice, malicious, and maleficent.
Here鈥檚 an example of malignant and benign used correctly in the same sentence.
Example: She was afraid the lump was a malignant tumor, but it turned out to be a benign cyst鈥攖otally harmless.
Want to learn more? Read the full breakdown of the difference between malignant and benign.
Quiz yourself on malignant vs. benign!
Should malignant or benign be used in the following sentence?
I can assure you that my intentions are completely _____鈥擨 mean no harm.
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