Malignant

//məˈlɪɡnənt//

Synonyms for "malignant" (180 found)

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Closest matches (36)

Strong matches (54)

Related words (90)

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Translations

71 translations across 31 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • κακοήθης adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • κακοήθης adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Armenian

1 entries
  • չարորակ adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Basque

2 entries
  • gaizto adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • gaizto adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • зловреден adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • злокачествен adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Catalan

2 entries
  • maligne adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • maligne adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Czech

2 entries
  • maligní adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • zhoubný adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Dutch

2 entries
  • kwaadaardig adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • kwaadaardig adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Finnish

3 entries
  • pahanlaatuinen adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • pahantahtoinen adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • vahingollinen adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

French

3 entries
  • malin adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • malin adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • malveillant adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

German

3 entries
  • bösartig adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • bösartig adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • malign adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Greek

2 entries
  • κακοήθης adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • κακοήθης adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • rosszindulatú adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • rosszindulatú adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • berbahaya adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

Irish

3 entries
  • ainciseach adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • aingí adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • urchóideach adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Italian

3 entries
  • malevolo adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • maligno adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • maligno adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Japanese

1 entries
  • adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • piktybinis adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • зло́ќуден adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • злока́чествен adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Māori

1 entries
  • orotā adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • malign adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • ondartet adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries
  • malign adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • vondarta adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Persian

1 entries
  • بدخیم adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • fientlich adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

Polish

2 entries
  • szkodliwy adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • złośliwy adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • maligno adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • maligno adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Russian

3 entries
  • болезнетво́рный adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • зловре́дный adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • злока́чественный adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • màlīgan adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • màlīgan adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • zlòćudan adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • zlòćudan adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Spanish

2 entries
  • maligno adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • maligno adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Swedish

2 entries
  • elakartad adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • malign adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)

Turkish

4 entries
  • habis adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • kötü adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • kötü huylu adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • zararlı adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • злий adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • злоя́кісний adj ((medicine) tending to produce death)
  • злі́бний adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)
  • шкідли́вий adj (harmful, malevolent, injurious)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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Get fuller, sexier, more malignant lips today!

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The tumor is malignant.

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Tom is a malignant narcissist.

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"Here, girt with steel, the foremost in the fight, / fierce Juno stands, the Scaean gates before, / and, mad with fury and malignant spite, / calls up her federate forces from the shore."

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