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malady
Meaning: an illness or serious disorder
malady in a sentence
How malady is used in real sentences:
Doctors struggled to identify the malady spreading through the village.
Clean water helped free the region from a malady that had persisted for generations.
“When the final port reports arrived, the audit exposed a malady deeper than a single treasurer’s theft: false voyages had financed private ventures for nine years.”
— from the passage The Threads in the Ledger
Synonyms for malady
Other words for malady — illness, ailment and disease — carry the same meaning.
- illness
- ailment
- disease
Antonyms of malady
Words that mean the opposite of malady:
- health
- wellness
- vigor
Where it comes from
From Old French maladie, meaning 'sickness.'
Word parts
- mal — bad, evil
malady: mal- (bad) + habitus (condition)
Memory hook
MALADY begins like 'mal,' meaning bad: a malady is bad health.