malnourished

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malnourished

adjective more malnourished · 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.

    Similar: underfed, undernourished

Opposite: well-fed

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of malnourish

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adjective

Opposite: well-fed

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adj suffering from malnutrition

Españoldesnutrido
हिन्दीकुपोषित kupoṣit
Portuguêsdesnutrido
Françaismal nourri, malnutri
Deutschunterernährt
Italianomalnutrito
Русскийистощённый istoščónnyj, недоеда́ющий nedojedájuščij

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@misc{malnourished_2026,
  title = {malnourished},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/malnourished},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}