Definitions for Malignant
məˈlɪg nəntma·lig·nant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. malignantadjective

   dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. malignantadjective

   Harmful, malevolent, injurious.

2. malignantadjective

   Harmfully cancerous; as a malignant tumor.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Malignantadjective

   Etymology: malignant, French.

   1. Malign; envious; unpropitious; malicious; mischievous; intending or effecting ill.

   O malignant and ill-boading stars!
   Now art thou come unto a feast of death. William Shakespeare.

   Not friended by his wish to your high person,
   His will is most malignant, and it stretches
   Beyond you to your friends. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   To good malignant, to bad men benign. John Milton.

   They have seen all other notions besides their own represented in a false and malignant light; whereupon they judge and condemn at once. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

   2. Hostile to life: as, malignant fevers.

   They hold, that the cause of the gout, is a malignant vapour that falls upon the joint; that the swelling is a kindness in nature, that calls down humours to damp the malignity of the vapours, and thereby assuage the sharpness of the pain. William Temple, Miscel.

   Let the learn’d begin
   Th’ enquiry, where disease could enter in;
   How those malignant atoms forc’d their way,
   What in the faultless frame they found to make their prey? John Dryden, to the duchess of Ormond.

2. Malignantnoun

   1. A man of ill intention; malevolently disposed.

   Occasion was taken, by certain malignants, secretly to undermine his great authority in the church of Christ. Richard Hooker.

   2. It was a word used of the defenders of the church and monarchy by the rebel sectaries in the civil wars.

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1. Malignant

   Malignancy (from Latin male 'badly', and -gnus 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse. Malignancy is most familiar as a characterization of cancer. A malignant tumor contrasts with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues. A benign tumor has none of those properties. Malignancy in cancers is characterized by anaplasia, invasiveness, and metastasis. Malignant tumors are also characterized by genome instability, so that cancers, as assessed by whole genome sequencing, frequently have between 10,000 and 100,000 mutations in their entire genomes. Cancers usually show tumour heterogeneity, containing multiple subclones. They also frequently have reduced expression of DNA repair enzymes due to epigenetic methylation of DNA repair genes or altered microRNAs that control DNA repair gene expression. Tumours can be detected through the visualisation or sensation of a lump on the body. In cases where there is no obvious representation of a lump, a mammogram or an MRI test can be used to determine the presence of a tumour. In the case of an existing tumour, a biopsy would be then required to make a diagnosis as this detects if the tumour is malignant or benign. This involves examination of a small sample of the tissue in a laboratory. If detected as a malignant tumour, treatment would be necessary. Treatment during early stages is most effective. Forms of treatment include chemotherapy, surgery, photoradiation and hyperthermia, amongst various others.

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1. malignant

   Malignant generally refers to a condition that is very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect. In medicine, it is often used to describe a severe disease or tumor that's resistant to treatment, spreads to other parts of the body, and could potentially result in death. It is the opposite of benign, which is used to describe conditions that are not harmful in effect.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Malignantadjective

   disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious

2. Malignantadjective

   characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious

3. Malignantadjective

   tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria

4. Malignantnoun

   a man of extrems enmity or evil intentions

5. Malignantnoun

   one of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party

6. Etymology: [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Malignant

   ma-lig′nant, adj. disposed to do harm or to cause suffering: malign: acting maliciously: actuated by great hatred: tending to cause death.—n. a name applied by the Puritan party to one who had fought for Charles I. in the Civil War.—n. Malig′nancy, Malig′nance, state or quality of being malignant.—adv. Malig′nantly. [L. malignans, pr.p. of malignāre, to act maliciously.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. malignant

   In English history, one of the adherents of the house of Stuart; a cavalier; so called by the opposite party.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Malignant in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Malignant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Malignant in a Sentence

1. John Bucher:

   One of the things that we found most interesting about our findings was that the malignant schwannomas -- even though they occurred in the heart and not in the head of these animals -- were in fact schwannomas, these experimental animal studies are but one approach to understanding whether exposures to radiofrequency radiation pose a risk to human health.

2. Barbra Streisand:

   The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

3. William Osler:

   Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

4. Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan:

   The region is subject to the same threats as the globe is and that is there is a malignant organization that has established itself in the Middle East, ISIL, and they continue to export terror around the globe.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   I woke last night from a nightmare in which I saw a malignant society of pathological liars racked with insecurities, consumed by guilt, screaming for violence and I noticed I was sweating most profusely as I thanked the heavens above that it was only a dream before turning on the light to get a cigarette.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Malignant
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Malignant
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Malignant
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Malignant
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Malignant
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
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