Dangerous vs Malignant - What's the difference?
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Full of danger.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
(lb) Reserved; not affable.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Of his speech dangerous
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)
Dangerous is a related term of malignant.
As adjectives the difference between dangerous and malignant
is that dangerous is full of danger while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.As a noun malignant is
.dangerous
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Forby. Bartlett.
Synonyms
(full of danger) * hazardous * perilous * risky * unsafe * See alsoAntonyms
* (full of danger) safeAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsmalignant
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