combining form ; 1 · bad. malpractice · badly. malodorous ; 2 · abnormal. malformation · abnormally. malformed ; 3 · inadequate. maladjustment · inadequately.

The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice.

From Latin male (“badly”). Prefix. edit. mal-. bad; badly. Synonyms.

Mal- is added to words in order to form new words which describe things that are bad or unpleasant, or that are unsuccessful or imperfect.

7 дней назад · badly or wrongly: The disease rubella can cause pregnant women to have malformed babies. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Wrong

6 нояб. 2018 г. · mal-. word-forming element of Latin origin meaning "bad, badly, ill, poorly, wrong, wrongly," from French mal (adv.), from Old French mal ...

Word Originfrom French mal, from Latin male 'badly'. Definitions on the go. Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford ...

30 авг. 2021 г. · The only example that comes to mind of “mal-“, meaning bad, and “ben-“, meaning good, both being used for the same base word is in “malevolent”/“benevolent”.

24 июл. 2022 г. · Mal (Science: prefix) a prefix meaning ill, bad; the opposite of eu-. Often relates to a disease or disorder. Compare: dys-, caco-.