The Collaborative International Dictionary
cancerous \can"cer*ous\, a. [Cf. F. canc['e]reux]
Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer;
affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth. ``cancerous
vices''
--G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. --
Can"cer*ous*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context oncology English) Relating to or affected with cancer. 2 Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
WordNet
adj. relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth"
like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
Usage examples of "cancerous".
Most terrible of all were the octopoid creatures, reconjoined in a blasphemous, crawling chaos of tentacles, claws, human and amphibian limbs, human heads protruding like cancerous growths from their rubbery flesh.
Sought to create a new version of the old, risk-laden onefor that had crumbled, weakened, was cancerous.
Thus, whether they were normal or cancerous, they would never be exposed to high levels of hyaluronic acid.
At first they worried about her losing her breast and Kennedy consulted cancer experts all over the world about a lumpectomy that could remove only the cancerous growth.
I suffered from lymphoma some years back, and I was cured by a drug tailored to attack the cancerous cells.
Web site of a music zine called misterlittle: Hot Flash: ex-Chinawhiteboy sells out, peddles junk-slop, ends up cap-pig cancerous bigtiiime!
Soon, the metastasis would be complete, and the First would go to the Gorgon Mount and take hold of that cancerous heart.
Is it true that among the class of people in such cities as Chicago, where cancerous animals are used for food, cancer is especially prevalent year after year?
It should not, as long as meat derived from cancerous animals is permitted by Government authority, to pass inspection, and to be distributed throughout the world.
The connection between increase of cancer and the permitted utilization for food purposes of animals suffering from cancerous ailments is a problem that awaits solution.
Then, as I playfully shook him and turned him around, I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.
Basal and squamous cell are very curable cancers that are usually treated by removal of the cancerous growth.
Japanese militarism and ultranationalism were construed as reflecting the essence of a feudalistic, Oriental culture that was cancerous in and of itself.
There were strap-hanging cadavers, covered with cobwebs, and cancerous things lolling in their seats.
Laughter, the buzz of conversation, and the exuberance of a young crowd flaunting the hottest styles stubbornly defied the cancerous evils infecting the town.