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  1. mal- is attached to nouns and adjectives and means "bad; wrongful; ill''. This meaning is found in such words as: maladroit, malcontent, malfunction.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025mal-,
  1. a combining form meaning "bad,'' "wrongful,'' "ill,'' occurring originally in loanwords from French (malapert); on this model, used in the formation of other words (malfunction; malcontent). Cf. male-.
  • Latin malus bad)
  • Latin male badly, ill) and adjective, adjectival (
  • Old French, representing mal adverb, adverbial (
  • Middle English
Mal.,
    1. BibleMalachi.
    2. Malayan.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: mal- combining form
  1. bad or badly; wrong or wrongly; imperfect or defective: maladjusted, malfunction
Etymology: Old French, from Latin malus bad, male badly 'mal-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): absence seizure - Ashton - Chabrol - grand mal - Mal. - maladroit - malaise - malapropos - Malathion - mal de mer - malfeasance - malinger - Malle - malware - meal - Meninga - mole - petit mal - pinta - tonic-clonic seizure - abnormal psychology - acrosome - Alaskan malamute - aneurysm - antinormal - asterism - autosome - baptismal name - baptismal regeneration - bioherm - biostrome - blastema - bonanza - bon gré, mal gré - British thermal unit - cataclysmic - catechism - chasm - chiasma - chordamesoderm - chrism - chromosomal aberration - chromosome - common mallow - completely normal space - conformal projection - cytostome - dermatome - diapason normal pitch - dichloroethyl formal

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