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cancerously

cancerously adverb: in a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.

Adverb

cancerously (comparative more cancerously, superlative most cancerously)

  1. In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
    • He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.2005, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323
  2. With cancer.
    • cancerously diseased cells

Forms of cancerously

comparativemore cancerously
superlativemost cancerously

Origin of cancerously

From cancerous + -ly.

Questions about cancerously

What does cancerously mean?
Cancerously means in a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
What part of speech is cancerously?
Cancerously is an adverb.

Words near cancerously in the dictionary

  1. cancerophobic
  2. canceroprotective
  3. cancerostatic
  4. cancerotoxic
  5. cancerous
  6. cancerously
  7. cancerousness
  8. cancerphobe
  9. cancerphobes
  10. cancerphobia
  11. cancerphobic

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