malignant
/məˈlɪgnənt/adjective
1
- (of a disease) very virulent or infectious（疾病）致命的; 传染性强的。
1.1
- (of a tumour) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous（肿瘤）恶性的, 癌变的; 复发的。与BENIGN相对。
2
- malevolent恶毒的：
in the hands of malignant fate.
在厄运掌握之中。
派生词
malignantly
adverb词源
mid 16th cent. （also in the sense 'likely to rebel against God or authority'）： from late Latin malignant-'contriving maliciously'， from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe those sympathetic to the royalist cause during the English Civil War.