malign

Definition of malign in English English dictionary: malevolent
He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.; To make defamatory statements about someone or something; evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence; to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely; {v} to hurt, injure, traduce, envy; {a} malicious, unfavorable, infectious; {f} slander, make evil and untrue statements about another; speak in a wicked manner of; Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets; If something is malign, it causes harm. the malign influence jealousy had on their lives = harmful benign see also much-maligned. to say unpleasant things about someone that are untrue = slander (malignier , from malignari, from malignus; MALIGN). harmful benign; To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure; Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; opposed to benign; having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"; speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"; To entertain malice; evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"; Malignant; as, a malign ulcer; To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse; If you malign someone, you say unpleasant and untrue things about them. We maligned him dreadfully when you come to think of it; {s} evil, harmful; To make false defamatory statements about someone
malignant: Harmfully cancerous; as a malignant tumor
maligned: Assailed with contemptuous language
maligned: Simple past tense and past participle of malign
malignity: The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness
His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
malignant: evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief
malignant: baleful
malignant: If you say that someone is malignant, you think they are cruel and like to cause harm. He said that we were evil, malignant and mean
malignant: {s} malevolent, malicious, spiteful; harmful; deadly, fatal, likely to cause death (Pathology); cancerous (Pathology)
malignant: {a} envious, malicious, fatal
malignant: {n} a reviler, an envier
maligner: {n} a reviler, an envier
malignity: {n} malevolence, malice
malignly: {a} enviously with ill-will
Malignity: livor
malignance: Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever
malignance: (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
malignance: Unfavorableness; evil nature
malignance: The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart
malignance: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignance: {i} quality or condition of being malignant; malevolence, maliciousness; tendency to cause death, deadliness (Pathology)
malignance: The state of being a malignant
malignant: A malignant tumour or disease is out of control and likely to cause death. She developed a malignant breast tumour. benign
malignant: dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
malignant: A tumour having the capacity to destroy tissue locally, spread and cause death
malignant: Resistant to treatment; occurring in severe form, and frequently fatal; tending to become worse and leading to a course of increasing severity In cancer, malignant tumors are those that are locally invasive and destructive and that can spread to other parts of the body
malignant: Harmful, malevolent, injurious
malignant: cancerous cells that can invade other parts of the body
malignant: Cancerous Cancer cells can spread through the blood or lymphatic system to start new cancers in other parts of the body
malignant: Cancerous
malignant: or Charles II
malignant: —A word used to describe a condition that is characterized by uncontrolled growth and/or that can be fatal, such as a cancerous tumor
malignant: Having the properties of cancerous growth
malignant: Cancerous; a growth with a tendency to invade and destroy nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body SOURCE : http: //cancernet nci nih gov/dictionary html
malignant: a term used to describe cancerous tumors which tend to grow rapidly, can invade and destroy nearby normal tissues, and can spread
malignant: One of the adherents of Charles I
malignant: If a tumor is capable of spreading to other regions of the body, rather than just growing in one place, it is characterized as malignant See Benign
malignant: (ma-LIG-nant): Cancerous; a growth with a tendency to invade and destroy nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body
malignant: Cancerous; can spread to other parts of the body
malignant: Cancerous; can invade nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body
malignant: Another term for cancerous and commonly refers to a malignant tumor, the main characteristic of which is, that it is likely to penetrate the tissues or organ in which it originated as well as move to other sites
malignant: so called by the opposite party
malignant: Cancerous Malignant tumours can invade and destroy surrounding tissue and have the capacity to spread
malignant: cancerous; with a tendency to spread
malignant: A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions
malignant: refers to a cancer, neoplasm or tumor that grows in an uncontrolled manner, invading nearby tissue and spreading (metastasizing) to other sites through the bloodstream Contrast with benign
malignant: Refers to cells or tumors growing in an uncontrolled fashion Such growths may spread to and disrupt nearby normal tissue or reach distant sites via the bloodstream By definition, cancers are always malignant, and the term malignancy implies cancer
malignant: Harmfully cancerous; as, a malignant tumor
malignant: Capable of invading Cancers spread by invading normal tissue and spreading to distant tissues (metastasis)
malignant: Adjective describing cells in a cancerous growth See tumour
malignant: Cancerous, capable of spreading to other parts of the body
malignant: Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious
malignant: Resistant to treatment, severe, or tending to become progressively worse When referring to a tumor, this term implies a tendency to invade adjacent tissues and to spread to other areas or organs of the body
malignant: Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious
malignant: cancerous or life-threatening, tending to become progressively worse
malignant: An abnormal growth which can extend into ("invade") surrounding tissues or travel to other organs or tissues by the bloodstream or lymphatics ("metastasize") Malignant tumors require aggressive treatment, often combinations of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, in order to provide the possibility of a cure
malignant: Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria
malignant: extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
malignantly: in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads
malignantly: In a malignant manner
malignantly: in a malignant manner; malevolently, maliciously; harmfully
maligned: Assailed with contemptuous langage
maligned: Past tense of malign; to say something misleading; falsely or spitefully.to misrepresent someone or something giving them a bad name and a spoil in character
maligner: {i} one who slanders, one who makes evil and untrue statements about another
maligner: One who maligns
maligning: present participle of malign
malignity: Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud
malignity: wishing evil to others
malignity: The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite
malignity: A non-benign cancer; a malignancy
malignity: Virulence; deadly quality
malignity: The quality of being malign or malignant; bad, evil, monstrous, depraved, maliciousness
malignity: {i} wickedness, malice, desire to inflict harm or evil on another
malignity: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignly: In a malign manner; with malignity
malignly: In a malign manner
maligns: third-person singular of malign