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malignant

adj
/məˈlɪɡnənt/

Etymology

From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign.

  1. derived from malignans
  2. derived from malignant

Definitions

  1. Harmful, malevolent, injurious.

    • malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection
    • […]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.

  2. Tending to produce death

    Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.

    • malignant diphtheria
    • a malignant tumor

  3. A deviant

    A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.

    • As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]
    • A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.

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Derived

bovine malignant catarrhal fever, hematomalignant, malignancy, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant edema, malignantly, malignin, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, non-malignant, nonmalignant, paramalignant, premalignant, promalignant, pseudomalignant, semimalignant, unmalignant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at malignant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at malignant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at malignant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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