Reverse Dictionary: MALIGNANT

ADJECTIVES
► BALEFUL full of malign, deadly, or noxious influence; pernicious, destructive, noxious, injurious, mischievous, malignant → a1000
► CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed → 1513
► CANKERLY malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed → 1580 obs.
► CRIMINAL of beasts: savage, fierce, malignant → 1477 obs.
► GALLFUL full of gall; bitter, malignant → 1596 obs.
► HATEL full of hatred; malignant, hostile; severe, cruel; fierce, bitter → a850 obs.
► HATELICH malignant, hostile; hateful → c893 obs.
► ILL-WILLY cherishing ill will; malevolent, malignant, ill-disposed → a1500 chiefly Sc.
► MALIGNOUS malignant → 1610 obs.
► SULLEN baleful, malignant → 1676 obs.
► UNCANNIE of persons: not safe to meddle with, as supposedly being in league with supernatural forces or having skill in magic, witchcraft or the like, malignant, baleful, mischievous → 1773 Sc.
► VENOM venomous; virulent, malignant, spiteful, fierce, malicious, savage → a1350 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► VENOMY venomous, spiteful, malignant, malicious → c1400
► WARLOCK malignant, wicked → c1375 obs.

ADVERBS
► CANKEREDLY spitefully, malignantly; peevishly → 1535
► CANKERLY spitefully, malignantly, peevishly → 1580 obs.
► EAGERLY angrily, fiercely, bitterly, malignantly → 1377 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADDERCAP ► ATTERCAP ► ATTERCOP a peevish, ill-natured person; one of a malignant disposition → c1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ATTERLING a venomous, malignant person; a shrew → c1430 obs.
► CACODEMON a malignant or deprecated person → 1711
► EDDERCAP  ► ETHERCAP ► ETTERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person → 1725 Eng. dial. & Sc.
► FURY one who is likened to an infernal spirit or minister of vengeance; a ferociously angry or malignant woman → c1374
► VAMPIRE a person of a malignant and loathsome character, esp. one who preys ruthlessly upon others; a vile and cruel exactor or extortioner → 1741