maladif

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)

Derived terms

• maladivement

Related terms

• malade
• maladie

Further reading

• “maladif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.