About The Word Malignant
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Malignant
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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 \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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