Lethal vs Malignant - What's the difference?
lethal | malignant |
Deadly; mortal; fatal.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
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 lethal and malignant
is that lethal is deadly; mortal; fatal while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.As nouns the difference between lethal and malignant
is that lethal is (chemistry) one of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid while malignant is .lethal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt”, so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.Noun
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* *malignant
English
Adjective
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- 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