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malignant
adj
- 1. Said of a person: feeling or showing hatred or the desire to do harm to another or others; malicious or malevolent.
- Thesaurus: hostile, malicious, vicious, evil; Antonym: kind, harmless.
- Denoting any disorder that, if left untreated, may cause death;
- Thesaurus: diseased, cancerous, fatal, lethal, poisonous, deadly, mortal, pestilential, cankered, virulent, corrupt; Antonym: benign.
- Said especially of a cancerous tumour: of a type that, especially if left untreated, invades and destroys the surrounding tissue and may spread to more distant parts of the body via the bloodstream or lymphatic system. Compare benign.
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