English Explanatory Dictionary

mal-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. bad, badly
  2. evil
  3. unhealthy, harmful
  4. unpleasant
  5. incorrect
  6. incomplete, unfinished
  7. poorly, deficiently
  8. unintentional, mistaken, accidental
  9. not

Pronunciation

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Word forms

mal-

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- From Old French mal- from Latin male (“badly”), from malus (“bad”).

Synonyms

mis- para- dis- dys- under- hypo- a- an- in- non- un-
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