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Malnourished

Definition: Malnourished

Malnourished

Adjective

1. Not being provided with adequate nourishment.

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

Antonym: nourished (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Malnourished

Specialty definitions using "malnourished": Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii. (references)

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Modern Usage: Malnourished

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The brother was seriously malnourished. (Halloween: Resurrection; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter)

You seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites? (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

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

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Commercial Usage: Malnourished

DomainTitle

Books

  • Economics of Supplemental Feeding of Malnourished Children: Leakages, Costs, and Benefits (reference)

  • Malnourished Children in the United States: Caught in the Cycle of Poverty (reference)

  • Malnourished People: A Policy View/Bk9029 (reference)

  • Marketing in developing countries : procedures, principles, and pitfalls when marketing processed foods for malnourished children in Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, and Colombia : an evaluation of private and public industry projects (reference)

  • The Malnourished Child (Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Vol 19) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Malnourished

Computer Images:
Malnourished

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Photo Album: Malnourished

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Life holds no joy for the malnourished. / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[showing a malnourished child].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Syrian poster showing a mother with a healthy, breastfed baby, and a malnourished, sickly looking baby sitting on a can of instant milk].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Malnourished

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Health

The diet may be inappropriate in children or in the elderly if they are malnourished or have special nutritional requirements. (references)

Heavy infection with hookworm can create serious health problems for newborns, children, pregnant women, and persons who are malnourished. (references)

Many people with short bowel syndrome are malnourished because their remaining small intestine is unable to absorb enough water, vitamins, and other nutrients from food. They may also become dehydrated, which can be life threatening. (references)

Children

Tajikistan

It is estimated that one child in three is malnourished in the country. (references)

Haiti

Approximately 22 percent of children under 5 years old are chronically malnourished. (references)

Burma

Those same studies indicated that, of children under 3 years old, 37 percent were malnourished, and 13 percent were severely malnourished. (references)

Economic History

Burma

UN agencies have found that nearly 40 percent of children are malnourished and HIV/AIDS is a serious problem throughout the country. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that enior officers required malnourished recruits to beg for food or money, or employed them in unsanctioned labor activities. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

Slightly more than half of all children are chronically malnourished. (references)

Worker Rights

Bahrain

There are numerous credible reports that domestic servants, especially women, are forced to work 12- or 16-hour days, given little time off, malnourished, and subjected to verbal and physical abuse, including sexual molestation and rape. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Malnourished

"Malnourished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malnourished" is used about 50 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5048,117

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Malnourished

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

malnourished

17

child malnourished

2

malnourished quadruplet

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Malnourished

Language Translations for "malnourished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

营业不良. (various references)

   

Danish

  

underernæret. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ondervoed. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

aliravittu (underfed, undernourished). (various references)

   

French

  

dénutri. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποσιτισμένος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

malnutrito, denutrito (underfed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alnourishedmay

   

Russian 

  

плохо питающийся. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desnutrido. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Malnourished

Misspellings

"Malnourished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malmourished, malnorished. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Malnourished"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "malnourished" (pronounced malner"i'sht)
5-n er" i' sh tundernourished.
3-i' sh tabolished, burnished, cherished, furnished, tarnished, unblemished.

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

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Anagrams: Malnourished

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-l-m-n-o-r-s-u"

-2 letters: admonisher, harmonised, normalised, rhodamines.

-3 letters: almonries, halidomes, handsomer, harmonies, harmonise, homelands, housemaid, humanised, humanoids, inhaulers, laundries, lemuroids, meandrous, melanoids, mishandle, moralised, muraenids, normalise, nourished, nursemaid, rhodamine, rhodamins, romanised, semilunar, unloaders.

-4 letters: adhesion, admonish, ailerons, airholes, aleurons, alienors, almoners, alumines, amidones, aneroids, aneurism, armholes, daimones, darioles, delusion, demolish, denarius, dimerous, dinosaur, dismaler, diurnals, dourines, drumlins, duramens, earldoms, emulsion, emulsoid, enamours, enshroud, halidome, halidoms, hamulose, handlers, handsome, hardline, hardnose, harmines, hauliers, haulmier, hedonism, heirdoms, hemiolas, herdsman, homeland, hordeins, horseman, hounders, houseman, humanise, humanoid, humerals, humidors, inhalers, inhauler, inhumers, insouled, islander, ladrones, laminose, laminous, launders, lemonish, lemuroid, lurdanes, madhouse, madrones, mandrels, mandrils, manholes, marlines, maunders, maundies, melanoid, melanous, melodias, menorahs, mensural, minerals, misenrol, misheard, mislearn, misruled, monished, monsieur, moraines, moralise, moulders, mouldier, mudholes, muraenid, neuromas, neurosal, numerals, ordinals, radiomen, ramulose, ransomed, residual, rhamnose, rheniums, rhodamin, rhodiums, rimlands, romaines, romanise, roulades, roundels, roundish, salmonid, semihard, semolina, shoalier, shoulder, smoulder, solander, solarium, sourdine, surnamed, unhailed, unhaired, unharmed, unholier, unhorsed, unlashed, unloader, unmodish, unraised, unshamed, unshared, unsoiled, unsolder, uranides.

-5 letters: admires, aileron, airhole, airshed, aldrins, aleuron, alienor, aliners, aliunde, almners, almonds, almoner, almudes, alodium, alumine, alumins, amidols, amidone, aneroid, anisole, anomies, arenous, armhole, aroused, asunder, audiles, daemons, daimons, damners, damosel, danseur, dariole, darnels, dashier, dehorns, denials, derails, dhurnas, dialers, dineros, dirhams, dishelm, diurnal, diurons, dolmans, dolmens, domains, domines, dormins, dourahs, dourine, dronish, drumlin, dualism, duramen, durians, durions, earldom, elusion, emodins, enamors, enamour, enduros, enhalos, erasion, hadrons, haemins, haemoid, hailers, hairdos, halides, halidom, haloids, handier, handler, handles, handsel, hardens, hardies, harmine, harmins, haulers, haulier, heinous, heirdom, heliums, hemiola, heralds, herdman, hernial, hernias, heroins, heroism, hideous, hinders, hirsled, hoarsen, hoidens, holards, holders, homines, hondles, hordein, hounder, humaner, humeral, humidor, humoral, humored, hurdies, hurdles, hurlies, inarmed, indoles, indorse, inhaled, inhaler, inhales, inhauls, inhumed, inhumer, inhumes, inroads, inshore, insular, insured, inulase, isolead, ladinos, ladrone, ladrons, lamedhs, landers, lardons, lauders, launder, limners, loaders, loamier, loaners, lomeins, loudens, loudish, lousier, lurdane, lurdans, madrone, maduros, maidens, mailers, malines, malison, mandrel, mandril, manhole, manlier, manured, manures, marines, marline, marlins, masoned, maudlin, maulers, maunder, medials, medians, medinas, medlars, medusal, medusan, melodia, meloids, menhirs, menials, menorah, merinos, merlins, merlons, miaoued, miauled, midrash, midsole, mildens, milords, minders, mineral, minored, misdeal, misdoer, misdone, mishear, mislead, misread, misrule, moaners, moderns, modular, modules, mohairs, moilers, molders, moldier, monades, moraine, morales, morulae, morulas, moulder, moulins, mourned, mousier, mudhole, muhlies, mureins, murines, mushier, nailers, nerdish, nerolis, neuroid, neuroma, nimrods, nodular, nodules, normals, nourish, numeral, oarsmen, oralism, ordains, ordeals, ordinal, ordines, osmunda, radiums, radomes, randies, randoms, realism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Malnourished


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 6C 6E 6F 75 72 69 73 68 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101100 01101110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#108 &#110 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006C 006E 006F 0075 0072 0069 0073 0068 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476778808187847585747170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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