malignant
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Etymology
From Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#MALIGNANT malignant, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#MALIGNANT malignans. See malign.
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Adjective
malignant (comparative more malignant, superlative most malignant)Category:English lemmas#MALIGNANTCategory:English adjectives#MALIGNANTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MALIGNANTCategory:Pages with entries#MALIGNANTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#MALIGNANT
- Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
- malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infectionCategory:English terms with usage examples#MALIGNANT
- 1863 August 26, Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James Conkling, page 7:
- […] while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.Category:English terms with quotations#MALIGNANT
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#MALIGNANT) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
- Antonyms: benign, non-malignant
- malignant diphtheriaCategory:English terms with usage examples#MALIGNANT
- a malignant tumorCategory:English terms with usage examples#MALIGNANT
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- “ […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] . And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […] ”Category:English terms with quotations#MALIGNANT
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harmful, malevolent, injurious
(medicine) tending to produce death
Noun
malignant (plural malignants)Category:English lemmas#MALIGNANTCategory:English nouns#MALIGNANTCategory:English countable nouns#MALIGNANTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MALIGNANTCategory:Pages with entries#MALIGNANTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#MALIGNANT
- A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
- 1823, The Retrospective Review, volume 7, page 11:
- As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]Category:English terms with quotations#MALIGNANT
- 1999, National Institute of Business Management, Difficult People at Work, →ISBN, page 8:
- A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.Category:English terms with quotations#MALIGNANT
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#MALIGNANT, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#MALIGNANT, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MALIGNANT) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
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