Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
relating to or affected with cancer;
- Example: "a cancerous growth"2.
like a cancer;
an evil that grows and spreads;
- Example: "remorse was cancerous within him"- Example: "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
cancerous \can"cer*ous\, a. [Cf. F. canc['e]reux]
Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer;
affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth. "cancerous
vices" --G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. --
Can"cer*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cancerous
adj 1: relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth"
2: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was
cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral
development of our children"