benign

Speech parts

1. benign - Adjective

2. benign - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.

Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

kind propitious mild favorable innocent gentle charitable harmless benevolent gracious compassionate good-natured auspicious genial salubrious
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Antonyms

malign arch savage misty satanic satanist
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Phrases with the word

benign neoplasm environmentally benign benign liver tumors benign muscular tumors benign contusion benign person

Examples

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. William Wordsworth

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. George Berkeley

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole. Jane Jacobs

Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign." Woody Allen

Let us be clear. The impulses underlying the dissemination of such untruths are not benign. They have the effect of eroding trust in our vital institutions and conditioning the public to no longer trust them. The destructive effect of this kind of behavior on our democracy cannot be overstated. Jeff Flake

Close letter words and terms

benighter benighting benightment benign contusion benign enlargement of the prostate benign fibrous tumors