B2nounformalhealthsociety
US/ˈmæl.ə.di/
UK/ˈmæl.ə.di/
an illness or a serious problem that affects a person or a place
In context
The doctor could not find the cause of his strange malady.
Corruption is a malady that has weakened the whole country.
Many old remedies were meant to cure every malady.
Words that go with malady
verb + preposition
- suffer from a maladyHe suffered from a malady that no one understood.
adjective + noun
- strange maladyA strange malady left the whole crew too weak to work.
- mysterious maladyA mysterious malady struck the village.
- social maladyLoneliness is a social malady in big cities.
- common maladyBack pain is a common malady among office workers.
noun + preposition
- a malady ofPoverty is a malady of modern society.