Usually means: Harmful and likely to spread.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word malignant:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. malignant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. malignant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. malignant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. malignant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. malignant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Malignant, malignant: Wordnik
  7. malignant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. malignant: Wiktionary
  9. malignant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. malignant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. malignant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. malignant: Dictionary.com
  13. malignant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. malignant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Malignant (disambiguation), Malignant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Malignant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. malignant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. malignant: Rhymezone
  19. Malignant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. malignant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. malignant: Free Dictionary
  22. malignant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. malignant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. malignant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. malignant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Malignant: Health & Beauty Glossary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malignant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Malignant: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. malignant: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  10. Malignant: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  11. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  12. malignant: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  14. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  15. malignant: Medical dictionary
  16. Malignant: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Malignant: Biology dictionary
  3. Malignant: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Malignant: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
adjective:  (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
noun:  A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
noun:  (historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.

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