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Definition: Malady |
MaladyNoun1. Any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?". 2. Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malady" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Malady \Mal"a*dy\, noun; plural Maladies. [French expression maladie, from malade ill, sick, Old French also, malabde, from the Latin expression male habitus, i. e., ill-kept, not in good condition. See Malice, and Habit.]. (references) |
Synonyms: MaladySynonyms: illness (n), sickness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Noun: disease; illness, sickness; Adjective: ailing; " all the ills that flesh is heir to "; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Malady |
| English words defined with "malady": Maladies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "malady": Blackboard ♦ drunk mouse syndrome ♦ Fever ♦ King ♦ Madness, mala metallorum ♦ Panace'a ♦ Rogue ♦ Typhoid ♦ Vomit. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Broadway Malady (1933) Molly's Malady (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A modern malady - the over-consumption of drugs. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by B. Zeppilli.. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Amos Bronson Alcott | To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When events, premonitory of some latent social malady, are moving heavily along, the least complication stops them and shackles them |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms." |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | With the limited means in the power of the Executive, instructions were given to the governor to accomplish this object so far as it might be practicable, which was prevented by the distressing malady referred to. |
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| "Malady" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malady" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "malady" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Malady | Last name | 130 | 62,178 |
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Expressions using "malady": be smitten with a malady ♦ social malady ♦ telegraphic malady. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "malady": dancing-malady. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "malady"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pafuqi (feebleness, hopelessness, impotence, impotency, infirmity, malaise, nullity, weakness), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), توعك (ail, illness, indisposition, malaise), سقم (ailment, be ill, disease, illness, infirmity, morbidness, sicken, sickliness, sickness), سوء (evil, ill, mal, mis), علة مرض (disease), علة سبب (cause, disease), داء (ailment, disease, illness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страдание (affliction, disease, hardship, infliction, misery, pain, sufferance, suffering), болест (affection, ailment, blast, disease, distemper, illness, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Chinese | 痾 , 弊病 (disadvantage, drawback, evil, malpractice). (various references) | |
Czech | nemoc (complaint, disease, illness, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Danish | erhvervsneurose hos telegrafister (telegraph clerk's cramp, telegraph writer's cramp, telegrapher's cramp, telegraphers'cramp, telegraphic complaint, telegraphic malady, telegraphist's cramp, telegraphist's paralysis, telegraphist's spasm). (various references) | |
Dutch | telegrafistenkramp (telegraph clerk's cramp, telegraph writer's cramp, telegrapher's cramp, telegraphers'cramp, telegraphic complaint, telegraphic malady, telegraphist's cramp, telegraphist's paralysis, telegraphist's spasm). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاسدشدگی , مرض (Disease), ناخوشی (Disease, Metastasis), بیماری . (various references) | |
Finnish | tauti (complaint, disease, disorder, illness, sickness). (various references) | |
French | maladie, mal. (various references) | |
German | Krankheit (affection, ailment, complaint, disease, illness, sickness, unsoundness). (various references) | |
Greek | αρρώστια (ailment, disease, illness, sickness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחל" (disease, distemper, illness, infirmity, sickness), חולי (ailment, disease, illness, sickness, suffering), כאב (ache, grief, hurt, pain, soreness, suffering, torment, torture, wrench). (various references) | |
Hungarian | betegség (ail, ailment, complaint, disease, distemper, evil, illness, malaise, morbidity, sickness, trouble), baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, harm, matter, misadventure, mischief, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyakit (ailment, bout, disease). (various references) | |
Italian | malattia (ailment, complaint, diesease, disease, illness, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Manx | gorley (disease, festering), dourin (disease, disease congenital, dose). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aladymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mal (badly, bale, barely, blight, evil, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, ill-treat, just, little, scarcely, sickness, teen, teener, wrong, wrongdoing), padecimento (ailment), doença (ailment, disease, disorder, distemper, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Romanian | boalã (affection, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, illness, lurgy, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Russian | болезнь (affection, ailment, disease, evil, illness, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bolest (disease, illness, sickness). (various references) | |
Spanish | mal (Amiss, badly, cowardice, damage, disease, evil, hardily, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, illness, in a bad way, infertility, inhumanity, lot, naughtily, poorly, trouble, troubled, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongly), enfermedad (affliction, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, epidemic, feverweed, flu, illness, infirmity, influenza, sickness, trouble). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjukdom (affection, ailment, disease, illness, ilness, sickness). (various references) | |
Thai | โรค, ปัญหา (case, grief, issue, riddle). (various references) | |
Turkish | illet (disease, ill, illness), hastalık (affection, ailment, bad blood, disease, distemper, ill, illness, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, patho-, sickness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розлад (concision, derangement, disarray, disunity, frustration, quarrel), хвороба (affection, affliction, ail, ailment, cause, disease, disorder, illness, sick, sickness). (various references) | |
Welsh | afiechyd (ailment, disease, illness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | male habitus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | maladie. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Malady" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alday, Aledby, daladier, Macleary, Macleavy, Madadayo, Madadh, Magadi, malade, Maladie, malado, malat, Malaud, maldy, maleldil, maley, malidy, mallad, maloady, malody, malory, mamady, Maradi, Matadi, Maylandia, maylay, Mcalary, meady, Mealda, mi'laddo, Mivaky, Mlada, mlady, Molday, mubadir, Muhadi, Mulladry, Mullaly, Myawadi, Naledi, Pallady. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "malady" (pronounced ma"ludē) |
| 4 | -l u d ē | melody. |
| 3 | -u d ē | anybody, comedy, custody, nobody, parody, perfidy, prosody, raggedy, remedy, rhapsody, subsidy, tragedy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-m-y" | |
-1 letter: madly. | |
-2 letters: alma, amyl, lady, lama, maya, yald. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ama, dal, dam, day, lad, lam, lay, mad, may, yam. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, al, am, ay, la, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-m-y" | |
+2 letters: amazedly, amygdala, amygdale, damnably, ladypalm. | |
+3 letters: adamantly, admirably, admiralty, amygdalae, amygdales, amygdalin, ashamedly, chlamydia, dynamical, ladypalms, pyramidal. | |
+4 letters: acrylamide, amygdalins, amygdaloid, animatedly, chlamydiae, chlamydial, damagingly, laundryman, myocardial. | |
+5 letters: abdominally, acrylamides, amygdaloids, bipyramidal, condylomata, declamatory, dynamically, maladroitly, mandatorily, pyramidally, pyramidical, unashamedly. | |
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