malarious
UK/məˈlɛəɹi.əs/US/məˈlɛɹi.əs/
malarious adjective: with malaria; where people may catch malaria.
Adjective
malarious (comparative more malarious, superlative most malarious)
- With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
- In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102
- Dr. Abrams, the Columbia expert, said in an interview that the Uganda findings had additional implications for treating H.I.V.-infected children in malarious areas.2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times
- Causing or relating to malaria.
Forms of malarious
| comparative | more malarious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most malarious |
Origin of malarious
From malaria + -ous.
Words formed from malarious
Words that rhyme with malarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
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- librarius
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
- octonarius
Questions about malarious
- What does malarious mean?
- Malarious means with malaria; where people may catch malaria.
- What part of speech is malarious?
- Malarious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce malarious?
- Malarious is pronounced /məˈlɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near malarious in the dictionary
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