cancerous
/ˈkænsəɹəs/
cancerous adjective: relating to or affected with cancer.
Adjective
cancerous (comparative more cancerous, superlative most cancerous)
- Relating to or affected with cancer.
- On Sunday at five they operated to remove the cancerous kidney.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 368
- A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as...2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR
- Antonyms:
- noncancerous
- Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
- Extremely unpleasant; detestable.
- I love this show, but the fanbase is so toxic and cancerous.
- Synonyms:
- AIDS, cancer, pure cancer
cancerous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
cancerous in Hindi
- कैंसरग्रस्त
cancerous in Tamil
- புற்றுநோய் போன்ற, புற்றுநோய் கொண்ட
cancerous in Marathi
- कर्करोगजन्य, कर्करोगयुक्त
cancerous in Bengali
- ক্যান্সারজনিত, ক্যান্সারগ্রস্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- cancerous in Punjabi
- ਕੈਂਸਰ ਵਾਲਾ
- cancerous in Gujarati
- કેન્સરગ્રસ્ત
- cancerous in Nepali
- क्यान्सरयुक्त
- cancerous in Arabic
- سَرَطَانِيّ saraṭāniyy
Synonyms of cancerous
Antonyms
Forms of cancerous
| comparative | more cancerous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cancerous |
Origin of cancerous
From Middle English cancerous, from Latin cancerōsus, from cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cancer + -ous.
Words formed from cancerous
Questions about cancerous
- What does cancerous mean?
- Cancerous means relating to or affected with cancer.
- What is cancerous in Hindi?
- Cancerous in Hindi is कैंसरग्रस्त. See Cancerous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cancerous?
- Cancerous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cancerous?
- Cancerous is pronounced /ˈkænsəɹəs/.
Words near cancerous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancerous (page history and authors); cancerous (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cancerous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cancerous (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cancerous (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cancerous (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cancerous (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cancerous (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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