Malignant

malignant







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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    有惡意的,邪惡的

                      a malignant nature

                      邪惡的本性

          2.    極有害的

          3.    【醫】惡性的,致命的

                      A cancer is a malignant growth.

                      癌是一種惡性贅生物。

n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    不滿者[C]





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



benign, benignant, malign, malignant (adj.) 

 

These pairs are antonyms. 



Benign means "kindly, pleasant, beneficial," and in medicine specifically "not malignant," as in a benign tumor. 



Malign means "evil, injurious, very harmful," and "malignant," as in His look was malign and full of hate. 



Malignant means much the same as malign, "maLEvolent, highly injurious, evil," and in medicine specifically it describes an abnormal growth, one likely to grow and therefore likely to kill, as in a malignant tumor. 



BeNIGnant is built on analogy with malignant and means "kindly, pleasant, beneficial," and in medicine specifically "not malignant."



Benign and malignant are the higher-frequency adjectives, especially in the medical senses, but all four are Standard. 





　You can believe he's seen enough horrible things during his years in the military that he's willing to go toe-to-toe with someone as malignantly evil as Bardem's remorseless killer.