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benign
Synonyms and Antonyms of benign
- Around campus he's known as a real character, but one whose eccentricities are entirely benign.
menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
offensive, painful, scathing, wounding
deadly, fatal, lethal, ruinous
destructive, insidious, malignant, noxious, pestilent, polluted, tainted
- basking under a benign sun on a day in early spring
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