"cancerous" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkænsəɹəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cancerous.wav Forms: more cancerous [comparative], most cancerous [superlative]
Etymology: From cancer + -ous, from Latin cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cancer|ous}} cancer + -ous, {{uder|en|la|cancer||crab; tumor, cancer}} Latin cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} cancerous (comparative more cancerous, superlative most cancerous)
  1. (oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer. Categories (topical): Oncology Translations (relating to or affected with cancer): سَرَطَانِيّ (saraṭāniyy) (Arabic), cancerós (Catalan), rakovinný (Czech), kancera (Esperanto), syöpäinen (Finnish), cancéreux (French), canceroso (Galician), krebsartig (German), ailseach (Irish), canceroso (Italian), chancreux (Norman), canceroso (Portuguese), canceros (Romanian), ра́ковый (rákovyj) (Russian), canceroso (Spanish), kanserli (Turkish), canseraidd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-cancerous-en-adj-x2Br3gla Topics: medicine, oncology, sciences Disambiguation of 'relating to or affected with cancer': 94 1 5
  2. (figuratively) Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm. Tags: figuratively Translations (growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm): злока́чественный (zlokáčestvennyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-cancerous-en-adj-eSWpAgfV Disambiguation of 'growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm': 1 99 0
  3. (slang) Extremely unpleasant; detestable. Tags: slang Synonyms: AIDS [slang], cancer [slang]
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: anticancerous, cancerously, cancerousness, noncancerous, paracancerous, pericancerous, precancerous, procancerous, uncancerous Related terms: cancer
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      "roman": "rákovyj",
      "sense": "relating to or affected with cancer",
      "word": "ра́ковый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to or affected with cancer",
      "word": "canceroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "relating to or affected with cancer",
      "word": "kanserli"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "relating to or affected with cancer",
      "word": "canseraidd"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zlokáčestvennyj",
      "sense": "growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm",
      "word": "злока́чественный"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cancerous"
}

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