Synonyms for cancerous
can·cer·ous

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1. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

2. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

3. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

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1. cancerousadjective

   relating to or affected with cancer

   "a cancerous growth"

   Antonyms:
   benignant, benign

2. cancerousadjective

   like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads

   "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

   Antonyms:
   benign, benignant

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1. List of paraphrases for "cancerous":

   malignant

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1. Joshua Gargalione:

   It was cancerous and they got it just in time before it metastasized, they had no idea and they in fact came back to me and gave me a present and said thank you and everythingI mean money cant buy that, you know, when you save someones life.

2. John Arway:

   As we continue to study the river, we find young-of-year and now adult bass with sores, lesions and more recently a cancerous tumor, all of which continue to negatively impact population levels and recreational fishing, if we do not act to address the water quality issues in the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania risks losing what is left of what was once considered a world-class smallmouth bass fishery.

3. Van Houten:

   The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analyzing tissues, we're acquiring a company that has deep clinical knowledge and technology to analyze cancerous cells.

4. Elvis Costello:

   Six weeks ago my specialist called me and said, 'You should start playing the Lotto', he had rarely, if ever, seen such a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy that could be defeated by a single surgery.

5. Erik Pevernagie:

   When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" )