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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.
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- Pathology.
- tending to produce death, as bubonic plague.
- (of a tumor) characterized by uncontrolled growth; cancerous, invasive, or metastatic.
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malignant
/ əˈɪɡəԳ /
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
/ ə-ĭ′əԳ /
- 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
- ˈԲԳٱ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·nԳ· adverb
- ԴDzm·nԳ adjective
- non·nԳ· adverb
- i··nԳ adjective
- semi··nԳ· adverb
- ܲm·nԳ adjective
- un·nԳ· adverb
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Example Sentences
The new abnormal and unhealthy reality — what Yale University psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton refers to as “malignant normality” — 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.
It makes sense that, after nearly a decade of most Americans rejecting him, a malignant narcissist like Trump would detest Americans categorically, and wish nothing more than to punish them all.
America is rapidly succumbing to a state of malignant normality and moral inversion.
What results from this situation is malignant normality, society’s routinization of falsehood and destructive behavior.
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Malignant Vs. Benign
What’s 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—it’s 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 “bad” and shows up in a lot of other negative words, such as malfunction, malpractice, malicious, and maleficent.
Here’s 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—totally 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 _____—I mean no harm.
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