malady

mal·a·dy  (ml-d)

n. pl. mal·a·dies

1. A disease, a disorder, or an ailment.

2. An unwholesome condition: the malady of discontent.

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[Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade, sick, from Latin male habitus, in poor condition : male, badly; see mel-³ in Indo-European roots + habitus, past participle of habre, to hold; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.]

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malady [ˈmælədɪ]

n pl -dies

1. (Medicine / Pathology) any disease or illness

2. any unhealthy, morbid, or desperate condition a malady of the spirit

[from Old French, from Vulgar Latin male habitus (unattested) in poor condition, from Latin male badly + habitus, from habēre to have]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	malady - any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?" condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
	2.	malady - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism illness, sickness, unwellness condition - an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" health problem, ill health, unhealthiness - a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain ague - a fit of shivering or shaking amyloidosis - a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma anuresis, anuria - inability to urinate catastrophic illness - severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines collapse, prostration - an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men" bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism - pain resulting from rapid change in pressure food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder - illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism - toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning hypermotility - excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract indisposition - a slight illness ozone sickness - illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy - an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine growth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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malady

noun disease, complaint, illness, disorder, sickness, ailment, affliction, infirmity, ill, indisposition, lurgy (informal) He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.

Translations

malady [ˈmælədɪ] N → mal m, enfermedad f

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malady

n → Leiden nt, → Krankheit f; social malady → gesellschaftliches Übel

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malady [ˈmælədɪ] n (old) → male m, malattia

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malady

n malady [ˈmӕlədi]

an illness or disease He is suffering from some strange malady. siekte مَرَض болест nemoc sygdom die Krankheit ασθένεια enfermedad haigus بیماری sairaus maladie מַחֲלָה रोग bolest betegség penyakit sjúkdómur, veikindi malattia 病気 질병 negalavimas, liga slimība; liga; ļaunums penyakit ziekte sykdom, syndrom przypadłość, dolegliwość doença maladie, boală болезнь nemoc; neduh bolezen bolest sjukdom โรค hastalık 疾病 хвороба; недуга روگ، مرض chứng bệnh 疾病