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Definition of Malnourished
1. Adjective. Not being provided with adequate nourishment.
Antonyms: Nourished
Definition of Malnourished
1. Adjective. suffering from malnutrition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malnourished
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malnourished
Literary usage of Malnourished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1920)
"The belief prevails that malnutrition is one of the causes of mental retardation,
also that mental tests of any group of malnourished with a like group of ..."
2. Food Consumption Parameters for Brazil and Their Application to Food Policy by Cheryl Williamson Gray (1982)
"1 SUMMARY According to anthropometric measurements, more than half of the children
in Brazil were malnourished to some degree in 197 5. ..."
3. Nutrition and Development by Margaret R. Biswas, Per Pinstrup-Andersen (1985)
"If a supplementation programme is feeding only malnourished children, perhaps
these costs would not be considered high, considering that a child's life is ..."
4. Nutrition and Growth in Children by William Robie Patten Emerson (1922)
"CHAPTER II HOW TO IDENTIFY THE malnourished CHILD As in the treatment and care
of infants a steady advance in weight is one of the most reliable tests of ..."
5. The Importance Of Women's Status For Child Nutrition In Developing Countries by Lisa C. Smith (2003)
"... body mass indexes 61 5.2 Predicted women's body mass index, by indexes of
women's status 65 5.3 Predicted probability of a woman being malnourished, ..."
6. Global Food Projections to 2020: Implications for Investment by Mark W. Rosegrant, Mercedita Castro Agcaoili-Sombilla, Nicostrato D. Perez (1995)
"A malnourished child is one whose weight-for-age is more than two standard ...
To get the projected figures for malnourished children, the authors first ..."
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