benign

Preposition: in

nature: They are entirely benign in nature, and require no treatment.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

keep: These price falls counterbalanced rising energy and services costs, to keep average inflation figures benign.

Modifies a noun

• hyperplasia: Chondroitin can result in problems ranging from painful benign prostate hyperplasia to deadly prostate cancer.
• tumor: Several of our animals have developed little benign tumors on their noses or ears.
• hypertrophy: In recent times the nettle has also been found to be effective in the treatment of benign prostate hypertrophy.
• tumor: The mass was a rare type of benign tumor, Miracle #2.
• neoplasm: A second type of human benign salivary gland neoplasm.
• lesion: Published by NICE Image-guided vacuum assisted excision biopsy of benign breast lesions.

Modifying Another Word

• environmentally: Direct electricity is the most environmentally benign fuel known to man.
• ecologically: To maintain trade which is mutually advantageous and ecologically benign.
• relatively: Last year's Lisbon summit took place in the context of a relatively benign economic climate.
• comparatively: I've described this because at the same time, the southwest was having a comparatively benign winter with much lower rainfall.
• seemingly: However, this seemingly benign improvement to local parking has, to my mind, highlighted a central contradiction in Enlightenment notions of progress.
• supposedly: There are intentional creations of dangerous agents for supposedly benign purposes that turned out not to be so benign.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: These medium-sized mill towns breed a sordid viciousness which makes gangsters seem as benign as Robin Hood and the East Side a cultural paradise.
• remain: Despite the recent rises in raw material costs, the inflationary outlook in manufacturing remains benign.
• look: However, they look benign compared with levels of more than three million in the mid-1980s.
• consider: The results indicate that there is no time during the first four post-operative weeks when seizures could be considered benign.
• term: If the tumor does not do this it is termed benign.
• sound: But that makes it sound somehow too benign, too tame.