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malnourished.

Suffering from malnutrition.

12 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj

  1. Suffering from malnutrition.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos? Proto-Italic *malos Archaic Latin malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourished English malnourished From mal- + nourished.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of malnourish

    form-of · participle · past
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos? Proto-Italic *malos Archaic Latin malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourished English malnourished From mal- + nourished.

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