Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Imperfect nutrition; defect of sustenance from imperfect assimilation of food.
Wiktionary
- n. a lack of adequate nourishment
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physiol.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Etymologies
- mal- + nutrition (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The latest survey of women's and children's health and nutrition, based on a survey of 23,000 households throughout the nation, reveals that a marked decrease in malnutrition is being replaced, unfortunately, by a higher incidence of obesity.”
“Protein malnutrition is serious in developing areas.”
“Protein malnutrition is widespread, especially among children, and many of its victims die or are maimed both physically and mentally for life.”
“A recently released report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) projects a significant increase in malnutrition in developing countries over the next decade.”
“Hundreds of millions of the hungry are children, and malnutrition is the underlying cause of at least 2.5 million preventable child deaths each year.”
“Though acute malnutrition is on the decline, hunger in Niger is always a cycle.”
Voice of America: Hunger Expected to Continue in Niger Despite Good Rains
“At the moment, the overall spending on malnutrition is 350 million dollars a year.”
“While malnutrition is commonly associated principally with people not getting enough to eat, potentially resulting in them suffering from vitamin-deficiency diseases and facing an increased risk of starvation, the concept of malnutrition also includes, at the other end of the spectrum, over-nutrition and issues related to obesity.”
“The half brute of the London slums had not food enough when a child, and malnutrition is deadly.”
“Half of it consisted of red rye, the rest comprising 20% sugar waste, 20% mealie and 10% straw meal or foliage, resulting not just in malnutrition but deterioration of the digestive system.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘malnutrition’.
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1100
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 288 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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List 1
the list of vocabularies from 1100 words you need to know Barron's.
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You've Got Mal
malice, malady, malevolent, malignant, maleficence, maleficent, malicious, malediction, malefic, maltreat, maladjustment, malformation and 28 more...
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