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malnourished

malnourished adjective: suffering from malnutrition. Also the simple past and past participle of malnourish.

Adjective

malnourished (comparative more malnourished, superlative most malnourished)

  1. Suffering from malnutrition.
    • Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    • Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”2015 December 23, Tiffany Ap and Artemis Moshtaghian, “Neglected boy shut in room with heater on dies of hyperthermia”, in CNN

Also used as

malnourished is also the simple past and past participle of malnourish.

malnourished meaning in Hindi

malnourished in Hindi

suffering from malnutrition
कुपोषित kupoṣit

Examples of malnourished in a sentence

  • The number of malnourished children has decreased.
  • Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages.
  • He pointed toward a groaning tram packed with malnourished workmen, rickets, and penury.

All 14 example sentences with malnourished

Synonyms of malnourished

Antonyms

Forms of malnourished

comparativemore malnourished
superlativemost malnourished

Origin of malnourished

From mal- + nourished.

Words formed from malnourished

Questions about malnourished

What does malnourished mean?
Malnourished means suffering from malnutrition.
What is malnourished in Hindi?
Malnourished in Hindi is कुपोषित (kupoṣit). See Malnourished meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is malnourished?
Malnourished is an adjective.

Words near malnourished in the dictionary

  1. Malnar
  2. Malnars
  3. malnormal
  4. malnormality
  5. malnourish
  6. malnourished
  7. malnourishes
  8. malnourishing
  9. malnourishment
  10. malnutrite
  11. malnutrition

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