MALIGNANT
\məlˈɪɡnənt], \məlˈɪɡnənt], \m_ə_l_ˈɪ_ɡ_n_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of MALIGNANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
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dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
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Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
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A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
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One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; - so called by the opposite party.
By Oddity Software
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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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Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
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Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
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A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
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One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; - so called by the opposite party.
By Noah Webster.
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Malicious; having extreme, active enmity toward any one; intending or bringing about evil; of disease, tending to produce death; virulent.
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Malignantly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Malignantly.
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Malign: acting maliciously: actuated by extreme enmity: tending to destroy life.
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(Eng. Hist.) A name applied by the Puritan party to one who had fought for Charles I. in the Civil War.
By Daniel Lyons
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Malignantly.
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Extremely malevolent; virulent; deadly.
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One who has evil intentions.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A term applied to any disease whose symptoms are so aggravated as to threaten the destruction of the patient. A disease of a very serious character, although it may be mild in appearance; - Morbus malignus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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