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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"