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Definition: Malnourished |
MalnourishedAdjective1. Not being provided with adequate nourishment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: nourished (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Malnourished |
| Specialty definitions using "malnourished": Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. | ||
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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) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malnourished | 17 |
child malnourished | 2 |
malnourished quadruplet | 2 |
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| 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 плохо питающийся. (various references) desnutrido. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Malnourished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malmourished, malnorished. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "malnourished" (pronounced malner"i'sht) |
| 5 | -n er" i' sh t | undernourished. |
| 3 | -i' sh t | abolished, burnished, cherished, furnished, tarnished, unblemished. |
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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. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01101110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l n o u r i s h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 006E 006F 0075 0072 0069 0073 0068 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476778808187847585747170 |
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