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cancerous

adj
/ˈkænsəɹəs/

Etymology

From Middle English cancerous, from Latin cancerōsus, from cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cancer + -ous.

  1. derived from cancerōsus
  2. inherited from cancerous

Definitions

  1. Relating to or affected with cancer.

    • On Sunday at five they operated to remove the cancerous kidney.

  2. Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.

  3. Extremely unpleasant

    Extremely unpleasant; detestable.

    • I love this show, but the fanbase is so toxic and cancerous.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticancerous, cancerously, cancerousness, noncancerous, paracancerous, pericancerous, precancerous, procancerous, uncancerous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cancerous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA