malignant
/məˈlɪɡnənt/
malignant adjective: harmful, malevolent, injurious.
Adjective
malignant (comparative more malignant, superlative most malignant)
- Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
- malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection
- […]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.1863 August 26, Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James Conkling, page 7
- Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
- malignant diphtheria
- a malignant tumor
- Antonyms:
- benign, non-malignant
Noun
malignant (plural malignants)
- A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
- As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]1823, The Retrospective Review, volume 7, page 11
- A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.1999, National Institute of Business Management, Difficult People at Work, →ISBN, page 8
- A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
malignant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
malignant in Hindi
- malignant, wicked
- मूज़ी mūzī
malignant in Tamil
- தீய சிந்தனையுள்ள, வீரியம் மிக்க, கொடிய, புற்றுத்திசு, புற்றுப்பண்பு, தொற்றிப் படரும்
malignant in Urdu
- خبیث, خطرناک, کینہ پرور, مہلک, مضر
malignant in Bengali
- অপকারী, ক্ষতিকর, মারাত্মক, অতিপ্রবল
More languagesFewer languages
- malignant in Malayalam
- അപായകരമായ, മാരകമായ, ഉഗ്രവിഷമുള്ള, കഠിനവിഷമുള്ള
- malignant in Kannada
- ಅತ್ಯುಗ್ರ, ಕಡುಸೋಂಕಿನ, ಅತಿ ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕ, ಮಾರಕ
- malignant in Indonesian
- berbahaya
- malignant in Persian
- بدخیم bad-xim
Examples of malignant in a sentence
- We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
- Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
- Mature teratomas are, instead, a type of cancer that may become malignant.
Synonyms of malignant
Antonyms
Forms of malignant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more malignant |
| superlative | most malignant |
| Noun | |
| plural | malignants |
Origin of malignant
From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign.
Words formed from malignant
Questions about malignant
- What does malignant mean?
- Malignant means harmful, malevolent, injurious.
- What is malignant in Hindi?
- Malignant in Hindi is मूज़ी (mūzī). See Malignant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is malignant?
- Malignant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce malignant?
- Malignant is pronounced /məˈlɪɡnənt/.
Words near malignant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: malignant (page history and authors); मूज़ी (Hindi) (page history and authors); malignant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malignant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malignant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malignant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); malignant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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