Savage vs Malignant - What's the difference?

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Savage is a related term of malignant.

As a proper noun savage

is .

As an adjective malignant is

harmful, malevolent, injurious.

As a noun malignant is

savage

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

wild; not cultivated

a savage wilderness

* Dryden

savage berries of the wood

barbaric; not civilized

savage manners

* 1719-

I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.

* E. D. Griffin

What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?

fierce and ferocious

savage beasts

a savage spirit

brutal, vicious or merciless

He gave the dog a savage kick.

The woman was killed in a savage manner.

(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair

- I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251

'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'

(figuratively) A defiant person.

Verb

(transitive)

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

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(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.

(obsolete) To make savage.

* South

Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.

Anagrams

malignant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Harmful, malevolent, injurious.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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(medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.

malignant diphtheria

a malignant tumor

Antonyms

* (medicine) benign

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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