maladif

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English

Etymology

From French maladif.

Adjective

maladif (comparative more maladif, superlative most maladif)

  1. (obsolete) Sickly.
    • 1859 (date written), Queen Victoria, edited by Roger Fulford, Dearest Child: Letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, 1858-1861, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1964, page 157:
      Pray tell me if it is true that Prince George of P. is going to make a morganatic marriage. I should be sorry, because I thought he was too maladif to marry even. If he could do so, he might do for poor Mary C.

French

Etymology

From malade +‎ -if.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.la.dif/
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Adjective

maladif (feminine maladive, masculine plural maladifs, feminine plural maladives)

  1. sickly (habitually sick)
    un enfant maladif ― a sickly child
  2. poorly (not well, sick)
  3. pathological
    Timidité maladive. ― Crippling shyness.
  4. diseased (having ill character)

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