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Definition of: mal
Bad; ill; evil; wrong; defective; imperfect; uneven: signifying also simple negation, and forming words directly from Latin and mediately through French: opposed to bene–, eu–. [<F mal- <L male- <malus bad]
Many words containing the prefix mal– are self–explaining, the prefix simply adding the meaning defective or evil:
| maladaptation | malconstruction |
| maladjustment | malexecution |
| maladminister | malinfluence |
| malconformation | malnutrition |
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