malignant

English

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• IPA: /məˈlɪɡnənt/

Adjective

malignant (comparative more malignant, superlative most malignant)

1. Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
2. (oncology) Harmfully cancerous; as a malignant tumor.

Antonyms

• (oncology): benign

Related terms

• nonmalignant

Translations

harmful, malevolent, injurious

Basque: gaizto (eu) Croatian: màlīgan (hr), zlòćudan (hr) Dutch: kwaadaardig (nl) Finnish: pahantahtoinen (fi), vahingollinen (fi) French: malin (fr)

German: bösartig (de) Hungarian: rosszindulatú (hu) Italian: maligno (it), malevolo (it) Spanish: maligno (es) Turkish: zararlı (tr), kötü (tr)

oncology: harmfully cancerous

Armenian: չարորակ (hy) (čarorak) Basque: gaizto (eu) Croatian: màlīgan (hr), zlòćudan (hr) Czech: zhoubný (cs) m., maligní (cs) Dutch: kwaadaardig (nl) Finnish: pahanlaatuinen (fi)

French: malin (fr) German: bösartig (de), malign (de) Hungarian: rosszindulatú (hu) Italian: maligno (it) Spanish: maligno (es) Turkish: kötü huylu (tr), habis (tr)

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Latin

Verb

malignant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of malignō