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)
• Dutch: kwaadaardig (nl)
• Finnish: pahantahtoinen (fi), vahingollinen (fi)
• French: malin (fr)
• German: bösartig (de)
• Greek: κακοήθης (el) (kakoíthis) m and f 
• Hungarian: rosszindulatú (hu)

• Italian: maligno (it), malevolo (it)
• Portuguese: maligno (pt)
• Russian: зловредный (ru) (zlovrédnyj) , болезнетворный (ru) (boleznetvórnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: màlīgan (sh), zlòćudan (sh)
• Spanish: maligno (es)
• Turkish: zararlı (tr), kötü (tr)

oncology: harmfully cancerous

• Armenian: չարորակ (hy) (čarorak) 
• Basque: gaizto (eu)
• Czech: zhoubný (cs) m, maligní (cs)
• Dutch: kwaadaardig (nl)
• Finnish: pahanlaatuinen (fi)
• French: malin (fr)
• German: bösartig (de), malign (de)

• Greek: κακοήθης (el) (kakoíthis) m and f 
• Hungarian: rosszindulatú (hu)
• Italian: maligno (it)
• Russian: злокачественный (ru) (zlokáčestvennyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: màlīgan (sh), zlòćudan (sh)
• 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