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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
malignant
adj 1: dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and
uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) [ant:
benign]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Invasive \In*va"sive\, a. [LL. invasivus: cf. F. invasif. See
Invade.]
1. Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.
"Invasive war." --Hoole.
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2. (Med.) tending to spread, especially tending to intrude
into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors. [Narrower
terms: malignant] PJC]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
malignant \ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of
malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See
Malign, and cf. Benignant.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress;
actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently
inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
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A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak.
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2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
"Malignant care." --Macaulay.
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Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak.
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Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
--Hawthorne.
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3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
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Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease
produced by infection of subcutaneous tissues with the
bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It is transmitted to man
from animals and is characterized by the formation, at the
point of reception of the infection, of a vesicle or
pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an
unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and
often fatal. The disease in animals is called charbon;
in man it is called cutaneous anthrax, and formerly was
sometimes called simply anthrax.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Malignant \Ma*lig"nant\, n.
1. A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles I. or Charles
II.; -- so called by the opposite party.
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Thesaurus Results for malignant:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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