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Disastrous vs Malignant - What's the difference?

disastrous | malignant | Related terms |

Disastrous is a related term of malignant.


As adjectives the difference between disastrous and malignant

is that disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.

As a noun malignant is

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disastrous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

    • Synonyms

    * (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinister

    Derived terms

    * disastrously

    malignant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
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  • (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
    • malignant diphtheria
    a malignant tumor

    Antonyms

    * (medicine) benign

    Related terms

    * nonmalignant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 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
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