malignant
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
Example
“malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection”
Other meanings
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
Related words
- hematomalignant
- malignancy
- malignin
- paramalignant
- pseudomalignant
- semimalignant
- malignant edema
- premalignant
- malignantly
- nonmalignant
- neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- promalignant
Word history
From Latin "malignans".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “malignant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.