Usually means: Inadequate nutritional intake for health.
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  1. malnourished: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. malnourished: Merriam-Webster
  3. malnourished: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. malnourished: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. malnourished: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Malnourished, malnourished: Wordnik
  8. malnourished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. malnourished: Wiktionary
  10. malnourished: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. malnourished: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. malnourished: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. malnourished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Malnourished: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  18. malnourished: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. malnourished: Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. malnourished: Encyclopedia

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  1. malnourished: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. malnourished: Medical dictionary

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  1. malnourished: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Suffering from malnutrition.

Similar:
underfed, undernourished, starved, foodless, unnourished, unfed, ill-fed, kwashiorkored, manorexic, bulimic, more...

Opposite:
well-nourished, healthy, nourished

Phrases:
malnourished children, more...

Colors:
    gray,     pale yellow,     dull brown,     sallow,     muted beige, more...


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Similar:
underfed, undernourished, starved, foodless, unnourished, unfed, ill-fed, kwashiorkored, manorexic, bulimic, more...

Opposite:
well-nourished, healthy, nourished

Phrases:
malnourished children, more...

Colors:
    gray,     pale yellow,     dull brown,     sallow,     muted beige, more...



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