transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪnaɪn ]
1.
You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
They are normally a more benign audience...
= charitable
ADJ : usu ADJ n
• be‧nign‧ly
I just smiled benignly and stood back.
ADV : usu ADV with v
2.
A benign substance or process does not have any harmful effects.
We’re taking relatively benign medicines and we’re turning them into poisons.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
3.
A benign tumour will not cause death or serious harm. ( MEDICAL )
It wasn’t cancer, only a benign tumour.
≠ malignant
ADJ : usu ADJ n
4.
Benign conditions are pleasant or make it easy for something to happen.
They enjoyed an especially benign climate...
ADJ : usu ADJ n