malnourished
adjective
- having received insufficient nourishment
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourished English malnourished From mal- + nourished.
- Suffering from malnutrition.
“Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.”
“Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.””
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourished English malnourished From mal- + nourished.
- simple past and past participle of malnourish