- malnourished
- adjective Date: 1927 undernourished
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
malnourished
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malnourished — adj. Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed. [Narrower terms: {starved, starving}; {unfed}; {foodless}] [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
malnourished — 1906, from MAL (Cf. mal ) bad, badly + nourished (see NOURISH (Cf. nourish)) … Etymology dictionary
malnourished — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ suffering from malnutrition. DERIVATIVES malnourishment noun … English terms dictionary
malnourished — [mal nʉr′isht] adj. improperly nourished … English World dictionary
malnourished — mal|nour|ished [ˌmælˈnʌrıʃt US ˈnə: , ˈnʌ ] adj someone who is malnourished is ill or weak because they have not had enough good food to eat ▪ malnourished children … Dictionary of contemporary English
malnourished — [[t]mæ̱lnʌ̱rɪʃt[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ If someone is malnourished, they are physically weak because they do not eat enough food or do not eat the right kind of food. About thirty per cent of the country s children were malnourished. Syn … English dictionary
malnourished — /mal nerr isht, nur /, adj. poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine. [1925 30; MAL + NOURISH + ED2] * * * … Universalium
malnourished — mal|nour|ished [ mæl nɜrıʃt ] adjective weak or sick because you do not eat enough or you do not eat enough of the right foods: malnourished children … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
malnourished — UK [ˌmælˈnʌrɪʃt] / US [mælˈnɜrɪʃt] adjective weak or ill because you do not eat enough or do not eat enough of the right foods malnourished children … English dictionary
malnourished — adjective suffering from malnutrition Syn: underfed, undernourished Ant: well fed See Also: malnutrition … Wiktionary
