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Malignant

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Adjective
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ma=lig=nant

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Malignant has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Malignanta. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.].
  •  Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.  [1913 Webster]
    "A malignant and a turbaned Turk."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]
    "Some malignant power upon my life."  [1913 Webster]
    "Something deleterious and malignant as his touch."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.  [1913 Webster]
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.
Malignantn. 
  •  A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One of the adherents of Charles I. or Charles II.; -- so called by the opposite party.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Malignant, adj.
1 a (of a disease) very virulent or infectious (malignant cholera). b (of a tumour) tending to invade normal tissue and recur after removal; cancerous.
2 harmful; feeling or showing intense ill will.

Idiom
malignant pustule a form of anthrax.
Derivative
malignancy n. (pl. -ies). malignantly adv.
Etymology
LL malignare (as MALIGN)

THESAURUS

Malignant

acrid, allergic, anemic, antagonistic, antipathetic, apoplectic, arthritic, atrocious, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, belligerent, bestial, bilious, bitchy, bitter, bloody, brutal, brutish, cancerous, catching, caustic, chlorotic, clashing, colicky, colliding, communicable, conflicting, consumptive, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, envenomed, epileptic, evil, fatal, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, full of hate, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, infectious, infective, inhuman, iniquitous, injurious, internecine, invidious, kill-crazy, killing, laryngitic, leprous, lethal, luetic, malarial, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, measly, mephitic, merciless, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, murderous, nasty, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, noisome, noncivilized, noxious, ominous, ornery, palsied, paralytic, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, phthisic, pitiless, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, poisonous, prejudicial, quarrelsome, rachitic, rancorous, repugnant, rheumatic, rickety, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scatheful, scorbutic, scrofulous, set against, sore, spiteful, tabetic, tabid, tameless, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, uncivilized, ungentle, untamed, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, vitriolic, wicked, wild

ROGET THESAURUS

Malignant

Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.

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