Thesaurus: malignant

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1. a. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
2. a. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
3. a. Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
4. n. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
5. n. One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
6. adj. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
7. 1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak. 2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." Macaulay. Some malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne. 3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax. 1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker. 2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
8. Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent;as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagiousdisease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by theformation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle orpustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthyulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Calledalso charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.
9. j:100 a. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)