English-Thai Dictionary

malignant

ADJ ที่ มุ่งร้าย  ti-mung-rai

 

malignant

ADJ เป็นอันตราย  ร้ายแรง  มี ภัย  อันตราย มาก  pen-an-ta-rai

 

malignantly

ADV อย่าง ชั่วร้าย  yang-chue-rai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MALIGNANT

a.[L. malignus, maligno, from malus, evil. ] 1. Malicious; having extreme malevolence or enmity; as a malignant heart.
2. Unpropitious; exerting pernicious influence; as malignant start.
3. Virulent; as a malignant ulcer.
4. Dangerous to life; as a malignant fever.
5. Extremely heinous; as the malignant nature of sin.

 

MALIGNANT

n.A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions. [Not used. ]

 

MALIGNANTLY

adv. Maliciously; with extreme malevolence. 1. With pernicious influence.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MALIGNANT

Ma *lig "nant, a. Etym: [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare,malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant. ]

 

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. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

MALIGNANT

MALIGNANT Ma *lig "nant, n.

 

1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker.

 

2. (Eng. Hist. )

 

Defn: One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL. ; -- so called by the opposite party.

 

MALIGNANTLY

MALIGNANTLY Ma *lig "nant *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a malignant manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

malignant

ma lig nant |məˈlignənt məˈlɪɡnənt | ▶adjective 1 (of a disease ) very virulent or infectious. • (of a tumor ) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous. Contrasted with benign. 2 malevolent: in the hands of malignant fate. DERIVATIVES ma lig nant ly adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘likely to rebel against God or authority ’): from late Latin malignant- ‘contriving maliciously, ’ from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe those sympathetic to the royalist cause during the English Civil War (1642 –49 ).

 

malignant pustule

ma ¦lig |nant pus |tule ▶noun [ mass noun ] a form of anthrax causing severe skin ulceration.

 

Oxford Dictionary

malignant

ma ¦lig |nant |məˈlɪgnənt | ▶adjective 1 evil in nature or effect; malevolent: in the hands of malignant fate. 2 (of a disease ) very virulent or infectious. • (of a tumour ) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous. Contrasted with benign. DERIVATIVES malignantly adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘likely to rebel against God or authority ’): from late Latin malignant- ‘contriving maliciously ’, from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe Royalist sympathizers during the English Civil War.

 

malignant pustule

ma ¦lig |nant pus |tule ▶noun [ mass noun ] a form of anthrax causing severe skin ulceration.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

malignant

malignant adjective 1 a malignant disease: virulent, very infectious, invasive, uncontrollable, dangerous, deadly, fatal, incurable, life-threatening. ANTONYMS curable. 2 a malignant growth: cancerous; technical metastatic. ANTONYMS benign. 3 a malignant thought: spiteful, malicious, malevolent, evil-intentioned, vindictive, vengeful, malign, mean, nasty, hurtful, mischievous, wounding, cruel, unkind; informal bitchy, catty; literary malefic, maleficent. ANTONYMS benevolent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

malignant

malignant adjective 1 a malignant growth in her left kidney: cancerous, non-benign, metastatic. ANTONYMS benign. 2 a malignant disease: virulent, infectious, invasive, uncontrollable, dangerous, harmful, pernicious; deadly, fatal, life-threatening, lethal, terminal, incurable. 3 one of the most malignant glares she had ever seen: spiteful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malign, evil-intentioned, baleful, full of hate, vicious, nasty, poisonous, venomous, acrimonious, rancorous, splenetic, cruel. ANTONYMS benevolent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

malignant

ma lig nant /məlɪ́ɡnənt /形容詞 more ～; most ～1 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗〘医 〙悪性の 〈腫瘍 （しゆよう ）病気など 〉(↔benign )▸ a malignant tumor [cell ]悪性腫瘍 [細胞 ]2 ｟かたく ｠悪意 [敵意 ]のある , 悪質な (!malicious, malevolentより強い意味で ) ; 有害な ▸ a malignant look 悪意に満ちた視線 ～ly 副詞