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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Bad; badly: maladminister.
  2. Abnormal; abnormally: malformation.

Wiktionary

  1. bad, badly as in maladjusted, malcontent - faulty, faultily as in malfunction
  2. not

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A prefix in composition denoting ill, or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See malice.

Etymologies

  1. From Old French mal- from the Latin adverb male, from malus. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from male, badly, and malus, bad; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. cest
  2. avoir
  3. jamais
  4. otro
  5. avait
  6. n'ai
  7. well-provided
  8. ex-military
  9. seclude
  1. cancer-free
  2. unmethodical
  3. painstaking
  4. intuitional
  5. premenopausal
  6. well-constituted
  7. 80
  8. kid-friendly
  9. bottle-fed
  1. undeformed
  2. airier
  3. trouble-free
  4. tour
  5. monarque
  6. Monsieur
  7. nor
  8. jeu
  9. verre
  1. monde
  2. dictionnaire
  3. scale
  4. army
  5. naitre
  6. accompli
  7. idiotism
  8. poisson
  9. nez
  1. sacer
  2. kern
  3. claque
  4. malice
  5. à
  6. absolutely
  7. pretty
  8. quite
  9. al

reverse dictionary (29)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. male-
  2. male
  3. pellagra
  4. zebra-woodpecker
  5. bene
  1. dib
  2. forjudge
  3. haut mal
  4. inanition
  5. Baudelaire
  1. Maldives
  2. Madagascar
  3. Falkland Islands
  4. zarontin
  5. phensuximide
  1. primidone
  2. emeside
  3. ethosuximide
  4. milontin
  5. mysoline
  1. absence
  2. absence seizure
  3. petit mal
  4. bongre
  5. impeachment
  1. narcolepsy
  2. petition
  3. thump
  4. vegetative

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