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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 .]
5 days ago · noun Word forms: plural -dies. 1. any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or deepseated. 2. any undesirable or disordered condition. social maladies. a malady of the spirit. SYNONYMS 1. illness, sickness, affliction, complaint, ailment, indisposition.
Definition of malady noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. A malady is an illness or disease. [old-fashioned] [...] 2. In written English, people sometimes use maladies to refer to serious problems in a society or situation. [...] More. Pronunciations of the word 'malady' British English: mælədi American English: mælədi. More. Synonyms of 'malady' • disease, complaint, illness, disorder [...] 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.
