Antonyms for cancerouscan·cer·ous

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1. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

2. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

3. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

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1. cancerousadjective

   relating to or affected with cancer

   "a cancerous growth"

   Antonyms:
   benignant, benign

2. cancerousadjective

   like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads

   "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

   Antonyms:
   benign, benignant

How to use cancerous in a sentence?

1. Erik Pevernagie:

   When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" )

2. John Arway:

   As we continue to study the river, we find young-of-year and now adult bass with sores, lesions and more recently a cancerous tumor, all of which continue to negatively impact population levels and recreational fishing, if we do not act to address the water quality issues in the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania risks losing what is left of what was once considered a world-class smallmouth bass fishery.

3. Kevin Pollock:

   It is associated with near elimination of both low and high-grade cervical disease in young Scottish women eight years after the vaccine program started, the figures are impressive and show a reduction of up to 90 percent of cervical disease abnormalities - pre-cancerous cells.

4. Van Houten:

   The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analyzing tissues, we're acquiring a company that has deep clinical knowledge and technology to analyze cancerous cells.

5. Jeff Bulte:

   If we tune the MRI to detect sugars attached to a particular protein, we can see the difference between normal and cancerous cells.

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