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malnourished

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for malnourished.

Editorial note

Any vet can tell you about cases of malnourished cats whose irresponsible owners failed to provide enough meat.

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Quick take

Suffering from malnutrition.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Suffering from malnutrition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for malnourished.

Example sentences

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Any vet can tell you about cases of malnourished cats whose irresponsible owners failed to provide enough meat.

2

And if you're going to act like that, then it's poetic justice that a lot of vegans are malnourished.

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They are literally starving, malnourished, have no clean water, no education - they have practically nothing.

4

Go spend time living with the farmer, learn the technology/skill and then bring that to the malnourished folks in AAA.

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Maybe you're one of those people who think that being trim is equivalent to being malnourished.

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Finally, a world where everybody has _just_ enough food to not die is still a pretty miserable and malnourished world...

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We have large sections of our population that are malnourished, inadequately housed, poorly educated and cut off from main stream society.

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Just heard on the news this weekend, the food bank is doing a campaign to feed about 400.000 people that are malnourished.

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The classic example is missionaries trying to teach malnourished landless peasants how to farm.

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Fortunately, the market overlap between MacBook users and malnourished 6-year-old children for whom an extra 1.5 lbs is a deal breaker is minimal.

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Why mention Africa when most of the world's malnourished people are in Asia?

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Bonus points if my rhetoric influences the death of a small malnourished Dachshund.

Quote examples

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That said nutrition probably only means the difference between 6' and 6'0.5", assuming you're not malnourished.

2

How would it be "poetic justice" for a vegan, who cares for other living things, to be malnourished?

3

> "In some particularly impoverished and malnourished areas, the disease has a fatality rate of 10 percent." You may want to feed them before worrying about giving them a shot.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use malnourished in a sentence?

Any vet can tell you about cases of malnourished cats whose irresponsible owners failed to provide enough meat.

What does malnourished mean?

Suffering from malnutrition.

What part of speech is malnourished?

malnourished is commonly used as adjective.