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Malignant

Malignant Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Malignant? [adj] extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers" [adj] (pathology) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Malignant: cancerous \| malevolent \| malign Related Terms \| Find terms related to Malignant: acrid \| allergic \| anemic \| antagonistic \| antipathetic \| apoplectic \| arthritic \| atrocious \| baleful \| baneful \| barbaric \| barbarous \| belligerent \| bestial \| bilious \| bitchy \| bitter \| bloody \| brutal \| brutish \| cancerous \| catching \| caustic \| chlorotic \| clashing \| colicky \| colliding \| communicable \| conflicting \| consumptive \| contagious \| corroding \| corrosive \| corrupting \| corruptive \| counterproductive \| cussed \| damaging \| deadly \| death-bringing \| deathful \| deathly \| deleterious \| despiteful \| destructive \| detrimental \| devilish \| diabolical \| disadvantageous \| disserviceable \| distressing \| dropsical \| dyspeptic \| edematous \| encephalitic \| envenomed \| epileptic \| evil \| fatal \| feral \| ferine \| ferocious \| fiendish \| fierce \| full of hate \| harmful \| hateful \| hostile \| hurtful \| infectious \| infective \| inhuman \| iniquitous \| injurious \| internecine \| invidious \| kill-crazy \| killing \| laryngitic \| leprous \| lethal \| luetic \| malarial \| malefic \| maleficent \| malevolent \| malicious \| malign \| mean \| measly \| mephitic \| merciless \| miasmal \| miasmatic \| miasmic \| mischievous \| mortal \| murderous \| nasty \| nephritic \| neuralgic \| neuritic \| noisome \| noncivilized \| noxious \| ominous \| ornery \| palsied \| paralytic \| pernicious \| pestiferous \| pestilential \| phthisic \| pitiless \| pleuritic \| pneumonic \| pocky \| podagric \| poisonous \| prejudicial \| quarrelsome \| rachitic \| rancorous \| repugnant \| rheumatic \| rickety \| ruthless \| sanguinary \| savage \| scatheful \| scorbutic \| scrofulous \| set against \| sore \| spiteful \| tabetic \| tabid \| tameless \| toxic \| toxicant \| toxiferous \| tubercular \| tuberculous \| tumorigenic \| tumorous \| uncivilized \| ungentle \| untamed \| venenate \| veneniferous \| venenous \| venomous \| vicious \| virulent \| vitriolic \| wicked \| wild See Also \| Malignant In Webster's Dictionary \Malig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See {Malign}, and cf. {Benignant}.] 1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak. 2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. ``Malignant care.'' --Macaulay. Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. --Hawthorne. 3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. {Malignant pustule} (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also {charbon}, and sometimes, improperly, {anthrax}. \Malig"nant\, n. 1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. --Hooker. 2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

Malignant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Malignant?

[adj] extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
[adj] (pathology) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Malignant: cancerous | malevolent | malign

See Also |

Malignant In Webster's Dictionary

\Ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of
malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See
{Malign}, and cf. {Benignant}.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress;
   actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently
   inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

         A malignant and a turbaned Turk.      --Shak.

2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
   ``Malignant care.'' --Macaulay.

         Some malignant power upon my life.    --Shak.

         Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
                                               --Hawthorne.

3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
   issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

{Malignant pustule} (Med.), a very contagious disease,
   transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the
   formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a
   vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks
   down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound
   exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also {charbon}, and
   sometimes, improperly, {anthrax}.


\Ma*lig"nant\, n.
1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. --Hooker.

2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles
   LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

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