Ruthless vs Malignant - What's the difference?
ruthless | malignant | Related terms |
Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
* 1725 , , Volume I, Bernard Lintot,
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)
Ruthless is a related term of malignant.
As adjectives the difference between ruthless and malignant
is that ruthless is without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.As a noun malignant is
.ruthless
English
Adjective
(wikipedia ruthless) (en adjective)page 10:
- At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.
Anagrams
*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