Benignant vs Malignant - What's the difference?
benignant | malignant |
Kind; gracious; favorable.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 417:
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
* 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
As adjectives the difference between benignant and malignant
is that benignant is kind; gracious; favorable while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.As a noun malignant is
.benignant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Here Nature appears in her richest attire, and Art, dressed with the modestest simplicity, attends her benignant mistress.
malignant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“[…] 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
- malignant diphtheria
- a malignant tumor
Antonyms
* (medicine) benignNoun
(en noun)- As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants