Antonyms for benign
bɪˈnaɪnbe·nign

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. benignadjective

   Antonyms:
   malign, malignant

2. benignadjective

   Kind; gentle; mild.

   Antonyms:
   malign, malignant

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. benign

   That which is auspicious is of favorable omen; that which is propitious is of favoring influence or tendency; as, an auspicious morning; a propitious breeze. Propitious applies to persons, implying kind disposition and favorable inclinations, especially toward the suppliant; auspicious is not used of persons.

   Antonyms:
   adverse, antagonistic, forbidding, hostile, ill-disposed, inauspicious, repellent, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious

   Synonyms:
   auspicious, benignant, clement, favorable, friendly, gracious, kind, kindly, merciful, propitious

   Preposition:
   May heaven be propitious to the enterprise.

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1. • Pathology

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. benignadjective

   not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

   Antonyms:
   cancerous, malign, malignant, unkind

   Synonyms:
   benignant

2. benign, benignantadjective

   pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence

   "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"

   Antonyms:
   cancerous, malign, malignant, unkind

   Synonyms:
   gracious, benignant

3. benignadjective

   kindness of disposition or manner

   "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"

   Antonyms:
   malign, cancerous, malignant, unkind

   Synonyms:
   benignant

How to use benign in a sentence?

1. Kenneth Nail:

   Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statutes. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

2. Erika Jones:

   Skeptical of their doctors ’ diagnosis, the Florida couple traveled to Boston Children's Hospital, where neurosurgeon-in-chief Alan Cohen evaluated the little girl. He ended up operating on Abigail and removing the tumor, which he said was benign. When Dr. Cohen came out of surgery saying we got it all, and we're pretty, pretty, pretty sure that it’s not malignant, it's not cancer, it was almost like she was born again.

3. Richard Hofstadter:

   A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

4. Evercore ISI analyst Umer Raffat:

   It ended up being fairly benign.

5. Stephanie Faubion:

   We used to think of hot flashes as transient and benign, but we're finding out now that they're neither.

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