cancerous
English
/kænsəɹəs/
adj
Definitions
- (oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer.
- Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
- Extremely unpleasant; detestable.
Etymology
Suffix from English cancer (disease).
Origin
English
cancer
Gloss
disease
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
症, 疾
Emoji
🦟 🪰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adenocancer English
- anticancer English
- anticancerous English
- cancer English
- canceration English
- cancered English
- cancerfic English
- cancericidal English
- cancerism English
- cancerization English
- cancerized English
- cancerless English
- cancerlike English
- cancerogenesis English
- cancerogenic English
- cancerology English
- cancerostatic English
- cancerously English
- cancerousness English
- cancerphobia English
- cancerphobic English
- cancerwort English
- gay cancer English
- multicancer English
- noncancer English
- noncancerous English
- paracancerous English
- pericancerous English
- postcancer English
- precancer English
- precancerous English
- procancerous English
- uncancerous English
- cancer Latin
- कैंसर Hindi
- kancer Albanian
- kansa Swahili
- کینسر Urdu
- kensa Tok Pisin
- ꤋꤢꤧ꤬ꤎꤣ꤬ Western Kayah
- cancer
- cancered
- precancer
- cancerism
- noncancer
- cancerfic
- cancerwort
- anticancer
- cancerlike
- postcancer
- cancerless
- cancerized
- gay cancer
- canceration
- cancerously
- multicancer
- adenocancer
- uncancerous
- cancerology
- cancericidal
- precancerous
- cancerphobic
- procancerous
- noncancerous
- cancerogenic
- cancerphobia
- pericancerous
- paracancerous
- anticancerous
- cancerostatic
- cancerousness
- cancerization
- cancerogenesis