BENIGN

adj. 1 kindly, gracious, good, kind, kind-hearted, benevolent, benignant, warm, warm-hearted, cordial, genial, congenial, tender, tender-hearted, compassionate, sympathetic, soft-hearted It was Grandad's benign goodwill that kept us together in those hard times 2 bland, gentle, mild, warm A benign smile lit the headmaster's face as he announced the awards for scholastic achievement 3 kind, favourable, fortunate; salutary, salubrious, mild, congenial, propitious She recovered rapidly in that most benign climate 4 non-fatal, non-malignant, non-virulent, curable, harmless Fortunately, the biopsy showed that the tumour was benign