malignant

[Ma*lig·nant]

For something that's very harmful, especially a tumor that's cancerous, use the term malignant.

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Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

Adjective S.
extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"

Adjective
dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

a.
Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

a.
Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.

a.
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

n.
A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.

n.
One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

Malignant

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.

2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." Macaulay.

Some malignant power upon my life.

Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.

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.

Malignant

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.

Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.

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Usage Examples

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

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