cancerous

1. 1.

   relating to or affected with cancer

   “a cancerous growth”

   Similarmalignant
2. 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”

   Similarmalign

Questions about cancerous

What does cancerous mean?

cancerous means "relating to or affected with cancer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cancerous?

cancerous has 3 syllables: can-ce-rous. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkænsɚəs/.

Is cancerous a common word?

cancerous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cancerous?

1 word rhymes with cancerous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.