Malaise

Definition: Malaise

Malaise

Noun

1. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "malaise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Etymology: Malaise \Ma`laise"\, noun. [French expression, from mal ill aise ease.]. (Websters 1913)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Malaise

Pain

Displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent.

Physical Pain

Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.

Crosswords: Malaise

Dutch (malaise), French (discomfort, discontent, faintness, malaise, qualm, queasiness, uneasiness, weakness), German (malaise, vague illness).

Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.)

Malaise en Malaisie (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization, and Malaise in France (reference)

• Demophrenia: Israel and the Malaise of Democracy (reference)

• Malaise (reference)

• Malaise of the Spirit (Teaching Cases in Cross-Cultural Education Number 2) (reference)

• Phony Culture: Confidence and Malaise in Contemporary America (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Un Certain Malaise [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Patients may be tired or notice a general malaise. (references)

Watery or bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and malaise. (references)

Commonly associated symptoms include abdominal cramps, nausea, bloating, urgency, fever, and malaise. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

GDP growth of 2.7 and 2.8 percent in 1999 and 2000 was insufficient to reverse the country's economic malaise. (references)

Indonesia

Continuing economic malaise has increased difficulties for workers and caused an increase in child labor (10-14 years old). (references)

Haiti

A political crisis stemming from the disputed parliamentary elections of May 21, 2000 has exacerbated Haiti's economic malaise. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

pafuqi (feebleness, hopelessness, impotence, impotency, infirmity, malady, nullity, weakness), gjendje e sëmurë (morbidity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وعر (broken, bumpy, hairy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rough, rugged, sharp, steep, tight), ‏توعك (ail, illness, indisposition, malady), ‏عسير (complicated, difficult, hard, intractable, knotty, precipitous, severe, strait, strenuous, stubborn, terrible, troublesome, uphill), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏إنزعاج (annoyance, botcher, bother, disturbance, indisposition), ‏شاق (arduous, hard, laborious, onerous, painful, robust, stiff, strenuous, terrible, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

физическо неразположение, безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry). (various references)

Czech

nevolnost (nausea, qualm, qualmishness), neklid (alarm, anxiety, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references)

Danish

utilpashed. (various references)

Dutch

malaise. (various references)

Farsi 

ناراحتی(malease)(طب), احساس مرض , بیقراری (Unrest). (various references)

French

malaise (m), malaise, malaisé. (various references)

German

Malaise (vague illness), unwohlsein (indisposition, unease), Unpässlichkeit (ailment, ill health, indisposition), unbehagen (anxiety, discomfiture, discomfort, discomforts, discontent, disquiet, unease, uneasiness). (various references)

Greek 

αδιαθεσία (ailment, distemper, indisposition, mild disease, sickliness, sickness), δυσφορία (discomfort, discontent, displeasure, dysphoria, dysphoric mood, fret). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבוכ�" (bewilderment, embarrassment, fix, maze, mazeiness, perplexity, puzzlement, quandary, tizzy, tumult, turmoil), אי מ� וח�". (various references)

Hungarian

rossz közérzet (discomfort, disease), gyengélkedés (ailment, ill health, indisposition, upset, valetudinarianism), betegség (ail, ailment, complaint, disease, distemper, evil, illness, malady, morbidity, sickness, trouble). (various references)

Italian

malessere (ailment, faintness, hangover, illness, indisposition, pip, slight, uneasiness), indisposizione (ailment, disorder, indisposition, mild disease, upset). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

違�'�感 (incompatibility). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いわか�" (incompatibility). (various references)

Manx

neuaashid (awkwardness, discontentedness, grievance, qualm). (various references)

Pig Latin

alaisemay.(various references)

Portuguese

mal-estar (brash, discomfort, discompose, inquire, queasiness, uneasiness), república de madagáscar (Madagascar, Republic of Madagascar), indisposição. (various references)

Romanian

stare proastã de lucruri, stagnare (atony, backwater, cessation, involution, languor, lifelessness, paralysis, stagnation), indispoziţie (ailment, disorder, distemper, hump, indisposition, miff, pip). (various references)

Russian 

недомогание (complaint, distress, indisposition, queasiness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slabost (faintness, frailty, infirmity, poorness, remoteness, tenuity, weakness), nelagodnost (discomfort, indisposition). (various references)

Spanish

malestar (ailment, discomfort, hangover, uneasiness, unrest). (various references)

Swedish

obehag (annoyance, discomfort, inconvenience, nuisance, unpleasantness), nedstämdhet (blues, depression, mood). (various references)

Thai

อาการป่วยไข้, ความกังวลใจ. (various references)

Turkish

rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), keyifsizlik (ailment, dejection, huff, indisposition, seediness). (various references)

Ukranian 

нездужання (ail, ailing, ailment, distemper, indisposition, queasiness, theism), нездоров'я (ailing, ailment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng phiền muộn, tình trạng khó chịu, nỗi khó chịu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "malaise": malaises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Malaise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amaise, amalyse, Maaike, ma'ase, Maasia, Maclayne, mailaise, malais, malaisa, Malaita, malase, malasia, malasie, malayer, malays, Malcase, malease, malhabile, maliace, malias, malise, Maliza, malties, maltize, Malvasia, manaise, Marlais, Masahisa, Mavasia, melamis, Milais, molaisse, molase, mulazim, mulazims, Mylayne, pallasii. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emails, lamiae, lamias, mailes, mesial, salami, samiel.

-2 letters: aisle, alias, almas, almes, amias, amies, email, lamas, lames, lamia, limas, limes, maile, mails, males, meals, miles, salmi, slime, smile.

-3 letters: aals, ails, aims, alae, alas, ales, alma, alme, alms, amas, amia, amie, amis, asea, elms, ilea, isle, lama, lame, lams, lase, leas, leis, lies, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, meal, mels, mesa, mile, mils, mise, sail, sale, same, seal, seam, semi, sial, sima, slam, slim.

-4 letters: aal, aas, ail, aim, ais, ala, ale, als, ama, ami, elm, els, ems, ism, lam, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, mae, mas, mel, mil, mis, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, sim.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ai, al, am, as, el, em, es, is, la, li, ma, me, mi, si.

+1 letter: camelias, maladies, malaises, semigala.

+2 letters: analcimes, anomalies, calamines, calamites, camellias, eclampsia, laminates, malarkies, materials, melismata.

+3 letters: acclaimers, acclimates, allogamies, almandines, almandites, aluminates, ambisexual, animaliers, animalizes, assimilate, calamaries, calamities, calmatives, campaniles, caramelise, eclampsias, gallamines, imbalances, impassable, lamaseries, lamebrains, leishmania, leukaemias, malachites, mediaevals, metaplasia, misbalance, mistakable, nialamides, palmitates, seamanlike, semantical, semiannual, spermatial, stalagmite, tularemias, verapamils.

+4 letters: acclimatise, acrylamides, admiralties, amaryllises, ambisexuals, ameliorates, amiableness, amoralities, animalcules, animalities, antirealism, assimilable, assimilated, assimilates, blastematic, calumniates, caramelised, caramelises, caramelizes, catechismal, cavalierism, delaminates, familiarise, glutaminase, hemiacetals, leishmanial, leishmanias, magisterial, mainlanders, malignances, mammalogies, manipulates, maquillages, marshalcies, martingales, materialise, materialism, materialist, maternalism, maxillaries, mayoralties, mechanicals, mediastinal, mesalliance, metanalysis, metaplasias, metaplastic, misalliance, misallocate, misanalyses, misbalanced, misbalances, miscellanea, misevaluate, parallelism, parliaments, paternalism, rigamaroles, seminatural, sexagesimal, stalagmites, stalemating, thalassemia, thalassemic.

+5 letters: acclimatised, acclimatises, acclimatizes, acromegalics, acromegalies, alkalimeters, amateurishly, ambivalences, ambulatories, ameliorators, amiabilities, amicableness, anecdotalism, anticlimaxes, antirealisms, assemblagist, assimilative, asymmetrical, bicameralism, bilateralism, biomaterials, blackmailers, caramelising, cavalierisms, chamberlains, complaisance, declamations, emasculating, emasculation, exclamations, extramusical, familiarised, familiarises, familiarizes, familiarness, fraternalism, galactosemia, galactosemic, glutaminases, hexadecimals, hypokalemias, immaculacies, immeasurable, immeasurably, inflammables, kleptomanias, lamentations, laparotomies, majestically, malacologies, maladjustive, malefactions, malignancies, malpractices, malversation, marginalizes, materialised, materialises, materialisms, materialists, materializes, materialness, maternalisms, matriculates, megalomanias, melancholias, mesalliances, metagalaxies, metaphysical, millenarians, misalliances, misallocated, misallocates, miscalculate, miscataloged, misevaluated, misevaluates, mistranslate, osteomalacia, parallelisms, paramedicals, paternalisms, planetariums, planetesimal, plasmogamies, platemakings, preeclampsia, reclamations, salamandrine, salesmanship, semantically, semiannually, semiarboreal, semipalmated, sexagesimals, summarizable, thalassaemia, thalassemias, thalassemics, ultramarines, ultrarealism, unmistakable.

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