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- DictionaryMal·a·dy/ˈmalədē/
noun
- 1. a disease or ailment: literary "an incurable malady"
noun [ C ] fml us / ˈmæl·ə·di /. Add to word list. Add to word list. a disease, or a problem in the way something works: She’s suffering from a variety of maladies, including dizziness, weakness, and headaches. (Definition of malady from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
A malady is an illness, like a malady that keeps you home, sick in bed for days, or something that causes you to have trouble or to suffer, like jet lag — a malady that affects travelers. Malady, pronounced "MAL-uh-dee," comes from the Latin words male, meaning "bad or ill" and habitus for "have, hold." When you have a malady, it is like ...
1. A disease, disorder, or ailment. 2. An unwholesome condition: the malady of discontent. [Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade, sick, from Latin male habitus, in poor condition : male, badly; see mel- in Indo-European roots + habitus, past participle of habēre, to hold; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots .]
2 days ago · 1. countable noun. A malady is an illness or disease. [old-fashioned] He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady. Synonyms: disease, complaint, illness, disorder More Synonyms of malady. 2. countable noun. In written English, people sometimes use maladies to refer to serious problems in a society or situation .
Definition of malady noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Illness & disability mal‧a‧dy /ˈmælədi/ noun (plural maladies) [ countable] 1 formal a serious problem in society 2 old use an illness Examples from the Corpus malady • Some doctors still regard menopause as a malady.
malady / ˈ mælədi/ noun. plural maladies. Britannica Dictionary definition of MALADY. [count] formal. : a disease or illness. The patient was suffering from a mysterious malady [= ailment] that the doctors were unable to identify. — often used figuratively. unemployment and other social maladies.
