Synonyms for cancer
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
Related words
- Word family
- cancerwort cancerization cancerous canker
- Phrases
- cancer stick black cancer chimney sweep's cancer cancer root gastric cancer stomach cancer green cancer swamp cancer
- Is a kind of
- growth tumor neoplasm
Forms
- Plural
- cancers → growths, lichens, malignancies, crabs…
Example sentences
- lichen Caribou eat almost only lichen during the winter.
- crab Snippy had the bluest blood of all his crab brethren.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cancer | rising | |
| lichen | steady | |
| crab | steady | |
| malignancy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- crab1
- 6 letters
- growth1, lichen2
- 9 letters
- carcinoma4
- 10 letters
- malignancy4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lichen2 = 2 syllables).