Synonyms for malignant
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Malevolent — harmful, malevolent, injurious
malevolent, malign, malicious, evil, spiteful, diabolical, destructive, deadly, hateful, virulent, sinister, vicious, devilish, wicked, pestilential, fatal, venomous, satanic, poisonous, bad, fiendish, iniquitous
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection
Related words
- Word family
- malignancy malign
- Phrases
- malignant edema
Example sentences
- evil Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- malicious There shall be no hindrances to my malicious plan.
- malevolent This world is controlled by malevolent forces.
- spiteful Fyodor’s mother is a spiteful woman who despises Rima.
- cancerous The results of Tom's biopsy show that the tumor is cancerous.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| malignant | steady | |
| evil | rising | |
| malicious | rising | |
| malevolent | rising | |
| spiteful | rising | |
| cancerous | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 4 letters
- evil2
- 5 letters
- fatal2
- 6 letters
- deadly2, wicked2, malign2
- 7 letters
- vicious2, hateful2, satanic3
- 8 letters
- sinister3, venomous3, spiteful2, virulent3, devilish2, fiendish2
- 9 letters
- malicious3, poisonous3, cancerous3
- 10 letters
- diabolical5, malevolent4, iniquitous
- 11 letters
- destructive3
- 12 letters
- pestilential
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).