Synonyms for malignant
məˈlɪg nəntma·lig·nant

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1. malignantadjective

   Antonyms:
   benign

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1. malignantadjective

   dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

   Antonyms:
   benign

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1. • Pathology

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1. lethal

   Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

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1. malignantadjective

   Synonyms:
   malign, MALICIOUS, malevolent

2. malignantadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) dangerous, fatal

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1. List of paraphrases for "malignant":

   maligne, vicious, malins, malign, malicious, smart, clever, cancerous, evil, pernicious, crafty

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. malignant

   Synonyms:
   Oncology Cancerous

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1. Scott C. Holstad:

   I woke last night from a nightmare in which I saw a malignant society of pathological liars racked with insecurities, consumed by guilt, screaming for violence and I noticed I was sweating most profusely as I thanked the heavens above that it was only a dream before turning on the light to get a cigarette.

2. Charles Robert Darwin:

   The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

3. Harold S. Kushner:

   Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

4. Lion Shahab:

   This paper provides evidence for a rise in specific malignant brain tumors in England, showing that incidence has more than doubled over the last two decades. What the analysis does not show is that this rise is caused by mobile phones. This is for a number of reasons, firstly, this paper does not attempt to link the rise in mobile phone use with a rise in brain tumor incidence directly.

5. William Osler:

   Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.