Associations to the word «Cancerous»

Wiktionary

CANCEROUS, adjective. (oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer.
CANCEROUS, adjective. Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.

Dictionary definition

CANCEROUS, adjective. Relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth".
CANCEROUS, adjective. Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne