Hyphenation of cancerous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word cancerous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

can-cer-ous

Definitions of cancerous:

1.	Relating to or affected with cancer A cancerous growth
2.	Like a cancer An evil that grows and spreads Remorse was cancerous within him Pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children

Synonyms of cancerous:

adj	malignant
adj	malign

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.