adj
Meaning 1
Suffering from malnutrition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
malnourished
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Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of malnourish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
not being provided with adequate nourishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nourished
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourished English malnourished From mal- + nourished.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: fejlernæret — suffering from malnutrition
- Danish: underernæret — suffering from malnutrition
- Dutch: ondervoed — suffering from malnutrition
- Finnish: aliravittu — suffering from malnutrition
- Finnish: virheravittu — suffering from malnutrition
- French: mal nourri — suffering from malnutrition
- French: malnutri — suffering from malnutrition
- Georgian: კვების უკმარისობით (ḳvebis uḳmarisobit) — suffering from malnutrition
- Georgian: ცუდად ნაკვები (cudad naḳvebi) — suffering from malnutrition
- German: unterernährt — suffering from malnutrition
- Hindi: कुपोषित (kupoṣit) — suffering from malnutrition
- Hungarian: alultáplált — suffering from malnutrition
- Italian: malnutrito — suffering from malnutrition
- Māori: makuhea — suffering from malnutrition
- Portuguese: desnutrido — suffering from malnutrition
- Russian: истощённый (istoščónnyj) — suffering from malnutrition
- Russian: недоеда́ющий (nedojedájuščij) — suffering from malnutrition
- Spanish: desnutrido — suffering from malnutrition
- Swedish: undernärd — suffering from malnutrition