Meaning and example
not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)
The passage used "benign" to mean not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.682 places benign in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 95.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 95.8%
having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
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- 95.8%
easily influenced
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- 95.8%
open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
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- 95.8%
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
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- 96%
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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