Usually means: Harmless, not causing damage or.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. benign: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. benign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benign: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benign: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benign, benign: Wordnik
  7. benign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. benign: Wiktionary
  9. benign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. benign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. benign: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. benign: Dictionary.com
  13. benign: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. benign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Benign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Benign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. benign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. benign: Rhymezone
  19. benign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. benign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. benign: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. benign: Free Dictionary
  23. benign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. benign: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. benign: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benign: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Benign: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. Benign: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  8. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. benign: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  11. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  12. Benign: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  13. benign: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  15. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  16. benign: Medical dictionary
  17. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  18. Benign: Drug Medical Dictionary
  19. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Benign: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Benign: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See benignity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Kind; gentle; mild.
adjective:  (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
adjective:  (in combination) Not harmful to the environment.
adjective:  (medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.

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