Malignant (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
  2. very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
  3. Pathology.
    • tending to produce death, as bubonic plague.
    • (of a tumor) characterized by uncontrolled growth; cancerous, invasive, or metastatic.
adjective
  1. having or showing desire to harm others
  2. tending to cause great harm; injurious
  3. (of a tumour) uncontrollable or resistant to therapy; rapidly spreading
noun
  1. history (in the English Civil War) a Parliamentarian term for a royalist (def. 1)
    Malignant (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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