Benign and Negative

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Benign

Benign adjective - Not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt.
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Negative is an antonym for benign.
Nearby Words: benignant, benignly, benignity

Negative

Negative adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.
Usage example: classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants
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Benign is an antonym for negative.
Nearby Words: negate, negatived, negation, negated, negativism
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  • Godzilla Threshold In Fractured, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover the Reaper invasion causes the normally-benign-if-ineffective Citadel Council to be replaced by the United Defense Command, a huge believer in Straw Civilian among other things which are all shown to be negative In-Universe.
    Source: Godzilla Threshold
  • The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself.
    Source: Tabletop Game / World Tree RPG
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Negative and Benign. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/benign/negative
Benign & Negative. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/benign/negative>.
Negative or Benign. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/benign/negative.

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