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noun
- 1. a disease or ailment: literary "an incurable malady"
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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.
The meaning of MALADY is a disease or disorder of the animal body. How to use malady in a sentence.
a problem within a system or organization: Apathy is one of the maladies of modern society. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of malady from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) malady | American Dictionary. noun [ C ] fml us / ˈmæl·ə·di / Add to word list.
MALADY meaning: 1. a disease: 2. a problem within a system or organization: 3. a disease: . Learn more.
Malady definition: any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.. See examples of MALADY used in a sentence.
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.
1. (Pathology) any disease or illness. 2. any unhealthy, morbid, or desperate condition: a malady of the spirit. [C13: from Old French, from Vulgar Latin male habitus (unattested) in poor condition, from Latin male badly + habitus, from habēre to have]
Definition of malady noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The earliest known use of the noun malady is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for malady is from around 1275, in Kentish Sermons . malady is a borrowing from French.
[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. MALADY meaning: a disease or illness often used figuratively.
