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benign
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 kind; gentle; mild. 2 (context medicine English) Not pose any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) [ant: malignant ] pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air" [syn: benignant ] [ant: malign ] ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Benign may refer to: Benignity , medical term describing harmless conditions The Benign Prerogative , episode 99 of US television series The West Wing Benign Violation Theory, see Theories of humour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Benign \Be*nign"\, a. [OE. benigne, bening, OF. benigne, F. b['e]nin, fem. b['e]nigne, fr. L. benignus, contr. from benigenus; bonus good + root of genus kind. See Bounty , and Genus .] Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES malignant/benign tumour (= caused by or not caused by cancer ) COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB environmentally ▪ Mr. Trippier My right hon. Friend is not environmentally benign but environmentally friendly. ▪ ...
Usage examples of benign.
It was warm in the sunlight, the weather accursedly benign, a scattering of soft clouds.
Sancta and Premio Sancto are not so benign, even as they give their blessing.
There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.
The yellow bushes, the fragrant and benign Golden Iridens, had been mingled with Sangeet Mobilus.
Philadelphian named George Scithers, had got the magazine off to a fast start, with Asimov himself as a benign guiding presence in the background, and it grew so quickly in popularity that its publishing frequency increased from quarterly at the outset to bi-monthly in 1978 and monthly a year later.
So a shambolic group, of all heights and body weights, were shifting about in their motley homespun tunics, while Fusculus gave benign instructions when he felt like it.
Mr Sommon still frolics with his ex-wife, aka Mrs Susanne Eggers, currently leasing Saffron Fields with her new husband, the benign portrait-hunting Taylor Eggers?
Kesselbaum pointed out to her, not as a criticism, Stoner dear, but so that she would be careful to surround herself with benign environments and loving persons.
Gone was the look of stunned confusion, and in its place, an expression so benign that the only hint of anxiety came from her fist clutching at the skirt of her gown.
David and Abraham running things in Melbourne and himself in Hobart and all of it under his own reasonably benign chairmanship.
I would like to ask you if there could be benign associations-Could you for example associate mescaline with apomorphine on a molecular level?
Not the benign and just devas that civilized Aryas worshipped, but the primordial spirit-lords that the Asura races bowed toas did a few discontented Aryas like Manthara herself.
If anything, this practice is viewed as a sensuous form of autoeroticism in which the vibrator is but a benign mechanism of pleasure.
The Marchioness di Barolo, whose name is linked to his in the memory of so pure and benign a union of friendship, lived the life, died the death, and bequeathed the renown of a saint.
He was the very model of the perfect Camorrista, benign and law-abiding on the surface, brutal and treacherous below it.