Malignant vs Cancerously - What's the difference?
malignant | cancerously |
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)
In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
* 2005 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel , page 323:
With cancer.
As an adjective malignant
is harmful, malevolent, injurious.As a noun malignant
is .As an adverb cancerously is
in a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.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
cancerously
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously .
- cancerously diseased cells