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Malignant 1100 Words You Need

Malignant 1100 Words You Need

/məˈlɪg.nənt/ (adj)

1. describes a disease or a diseased growth that is likely to get uncontrollably worse and lead to death, deadly, cancerous, spreading, fatal, lethal, mortal, terminal, incurable, lethal, life-threatening:

The process by which malignant cancer cells multiply isn’t fully understood.

Is the tumor malignant or benign?

2. evil, having a strong desire to do harm, malevolent, hateful, spiteful, malicious, menacing, wicked, cruel, mean:

He developed a malignant hatred for the land of his birth.

antonym: benign, innocuous, harmless, kind

Adv: malignantly

Noun: malignancy

French: maligne

Farsi: بدخیم


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