1. Having a kind and gentle disposition or appearance. 2. Not a threat to life or long-term health, especially by being noncancerous. 3. Neutral or harmless in its effect or influence. 4. Mild or favorable in effect.
1. The lady next door is a relavively benign presence. 2. The cancer's benign. 3. The storm was benign.
By Jafje
verb. the age one becomes after eight.
joe will benign after his birthday next week.
By mark86
Harmless.
On the surface, their argument had been about something benign, like a garden hose, but in reality, one was in a power struggle with the other. Only the armed participant saw the shooting as a win, the unarmed participant didnt think anybody won at something like that, but he was dead, so it didn't matter much what he thought, and it hadn't done much good for him to try and explain what he thought, since he got shot for it the first time he did.
By Solid Mantis