喜樂美語
  1. 1(醫學)惡性的；(比喻)惡意的

    In medicine, a malignant is cancerous and likely to spread and get worse - the opposite of a harmless, benign one. Outside medicine, malignant describes a person or feeling that wants to cause real harm - a malignant intention, or a malignant influence on someone's life.

core核心畫面

組成From Latin mal- (bad) + gignere (to produce/be born) - literally 'producing something bad.'

同家族的字

  • maliceshares the Latin root mal- (bad), meaning a desire to harm someone
  • maliciousshares the Latin root mal- (bad)

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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malignantadj/məˈlɪɡnənt/

  • 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

    medicinesciencesTending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.

    • malignant diphtheria
    • a malignant tumor

malignantnoun/məˈlɪɡnənt/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

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

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