ADJECTIVE | all | malignant | dangerous to health |
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Sounds | mahlih'gnahnt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor). | |
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Category | pathology | The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases |
Narrower | cancerous | relating to or affected with cancer |
Opposite | benign | not dangerous to health |
Spanish | canceroso, maligno | |
Catalan | maligne | |
Nouns | malignancy, malignance | (medicine) a malignant state |
Adverbs | malignantly | in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads |
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