"malignant" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /məˈlɪɡnənt/ Audio: en-us-malignant.ogg [US] Forms: more malignant [comparative], most malignant [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|malignant}} Middle French malignant, {{der|en|LL.|malignans}} Late Latin malignans Head templates: {{en-adj}} malignant (comparative more malignant, superlative most malignant)
  1. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Translations (harmful, malevolent, injurious): κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs) (Ancient Greek), gaizto (Basque), зловреден (zlovreden) (Bulgarian), maligne (Catalan), kwaadaardig (Dutch), pahantahtoinen (Finnish), vahingollinen (Finnish), malin (French), malveillant (French), bösartig (German), κακοήθης (kakoḯthis) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), rosszindulatú (Hungarian), berbahaya (Indonesian), aingí (Irish), maligno (Italian), malevolo (Italian), (hatsu) (alt: はつ) (Japanese), зло́ќуден (zlóḱuden) (Macedonian), fientlich (Plautdietsch), szkodliwy [masculine] (Polish), maligno (Portuguese), зловре́дный (zlovrédnyj) (Russian), болезнетво́рный (boleznetvórnyj) (Russian), малѝга̄н [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), зло̀ћудан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), màlīgan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zlòćudan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), maligno (Spanish), zararlı (Turkish), kötü (Turkish), злий (zlyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), злі́бний (zlíbnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), шкідли́вий (škidlývyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-malignant-en-adj-D~09FZvu Disambiguation of 'harmful, malevolent, injurious': 99 1
  2. (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue. Categories (topical): Medicine Translations ((medicine) tending to produce death): κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs) (Ancient Greek), չարորակ (čʿarorak) (Armenian), gaizto (Basque), злокачествен (zlokačestven) (Bulgarian), maligne (Catalan), zhoubný [masculine] (Czech), maligní (Czech), kwaadaardig (Dutch), pahanlaatuinen (Finnish), malin (French), bösartig (German), malign (German), κακοήθης (kakoḯthis) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), rosszindulatú (Hungarian), ainciseach (Irish), urchóideach (Irish), maligno (Italian), злока́чествен (zlokáčestven) (Macedonian), orotā (Maori), ondartet (Norwegian Bokmål), malign (Norwegian Bokmål), vondarta (Norwegian Nynorsk), malign (Norwegian Nynorsk), بدخیم (bad-xim) (Persian), złośliwy [masculine] (Polish), maligno (Portuguese), злока́чественный (zlokáčestvennyj) (Russian), малѝга̄н [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), зло̀ћудан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), màlīgan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zlòćudan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), maligno (Spanish), malign (Swedish), elakartad (Swedish), kötü huylu (Turkish), habis (Turkish), злоя́кісний (zlojákisnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-malignant-en-adj-3LLU9yGK Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of '(medicine) tending to produce death': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bovine malignant catarrhal fever, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant edema, malignantly, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, non-malignant, nonmalignant, premalignant, promalignant, unmalignant Related terms: malign

Noun

IPA: /məˈlɪɡnənt/ Audio: en-us-malignant.ogg [US] Forms: malignants [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|malignant}} Middle French malignant, {{der|en|LL.|malignans}} Late Latin malignans Head templates: {{en-noun}} malignant (plural malignants)
  1. A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
    Sense id: en-malignant-en-noun-N4lSeqKE
  2. (historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War. Tags: derogatory, historical, obsolete
    Sense id: en-malignant-en-noun-Nwm4LSWj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 16 4 77

Inflected forms

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          "text": "malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection",
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          "ref": "1863 August 26, Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James Conkling, page 7",
          "text": "[…]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.",
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          "word": "潑"
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          "sense": "harmful, malevolent, injurious",
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          "roman": "boleznetvórnyj",
          "sense": "harmful, malevolent, injurious",
          "word": "болезнетво́рный"
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          "text": "malignant diphtheria",
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        {
          "text": "a malignant tumor",
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
          "text": "“[…] 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[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "čʿarorak",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "չարորակ"
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          "lang": "Basque",
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          "word": "gaizto"
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          "roman": "zlokačestven",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "злокачествен"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zhoubný"
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          "word": "maligní"
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          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "kwaadaardig"
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          "word": "pahanlaatuinen"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "malin"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "bösartig"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "word": "malign"
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          "word": "κακοήθης"
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          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "rosszindulatú"
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          "word": "ainciseach"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "lang": "Irish",
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          "word": "urchóideach"
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          "word": "orotā"
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          "word": "ondartet"
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          "lang": "Persian",
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          "word": "بدخیم"
        },
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          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "złośliwy"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "maligno"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zlokáčestvennyj",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "злока́чественный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "малѝга̄н"
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "зло̀ћудан"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "màlīgan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "zlòćudan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "maligno"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "(medicine) tending to produce death",
          "word": "elakartad"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1823, The Retrospective Review, volume 7, page 11",
          "text": "As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, National Institute of Business Management, Difficult People at Work, page 8",
          "text": "A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deviant",
          "deviant"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ],
        [
          "destructive",
          "destructive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "historical",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈlɪɡnənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-malignant.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/En-us-malignant.ogg/En-us-malignant.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/En-us-malignant.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "malignant"
}

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