malaise, n. weakness, feebleness, infirmity, illness, sickness, suffering, aching, pain; discomfort, uneasiness, anxiety, disquiet, unquiet, inquietude, worry; despondency, depression, downheartedness, discouragement, dejection, SI. the blahs. malapropos, adj. unsuitable, unfitting, unbefitting, unmeet, inapt, inapposite; unsuited, irrelevant, non-germane, impertinent, unwarranted, uncalled for, out of place; unseemly, unbecoming, indecorous, improper; impolite, discourteous, rude, indiscreet, tactless, gauche, untoward; Inf out-of-the-way, Inf. off-key, out-of-bounds, out-of-line, out-of-order. malaria, n. yellow fever, yellow jack, swamp fever, ague, calenture, delirium, paroxysm, quartan, tertian; fever, feverishness, febricity, (in prescriptions) febris, chills, cold sweat, hot flashes, Pathol, pyrexia; Both Pathol, jaundice, icterus; disease, sickness, illness, infection, Inf bug. malarial, adj. 1. malarian, malarious, aguelike; feverish, febrile, fevered, feverous, fever-ridden, flushed, hot, burning, All Pathol, pyretic, pyrexic, pyrexical; Both Pathol, jaundiced, icteric; stricken, infected, diseased, sick, ill.
2. malaria-carrying, disease-carrying, infectious, infective, mephitic, miasmal, pestilential, pestilent, pestiferous, Pathol, septic, Med. virulent; deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal, pernicious, morbific, morbifical, deleterious; noxious, nocuous, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, unsalubrious, unhealthy. malarkey, n. Informal, twaddle, rot, nonsense, stuff and nonsense, blather, blatherskite, Inf. bosh, poppycock; baloney, foolishness, SI. meshugaas, balderdash, piffle, kibosh, tommyrot, Inf. fiddle-faddle; bunkum, SI. bunk, hogwash, SI. bushwah, SI. hokum, SI. bull; applesauce, flummery; claptrap, rodomontade, humbug; garbage, pack of lies, rubbish, SI. crap; silliness, inanity, idiocy, drivel; phoniness, SI. phony baloney; gobbledegook, jargon, gibberish. malcontent, adj. 1. discontent, discontented, dissatisfied, disgruntled, unhappy, displeased, unsatisfied; uneasy, unquiet, restless, nervous, restive, irritat ed, agitated; concerned, worried, perturbed, disturbed; gloomy, morose, sad, blue, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast; sulky, pouting, complaining, fault-finding, grumpy, edgy, hard to get along with, with a chip on one's shoulder.
2. factious, dissentious, rebellious, Inf. loaded for bear; contumacious, contrary, perverse, pigheaded, defiant, refractory, ungovernable.
-n. 3. discontent, fault-finder, Inf. sorehead; churl, grouch, grumbler, complainer, SI. beefer, SI. bellyacher; mumbler, mutterer, murmurer.
4. negativist, nihilist, obstructionist; agitator, fo-menter, insurrectionist, rebel, revolutionary. male, adj. 1. masculine, manly, manlike; virile; paternal.
-n. 2. man, boy, lad, youth, Irish. Eng. bucko; fellow, chap, guy;, gentleman, sir, mister; husband, father, brother, son, uncle, nephew.
3. stallion, buck, stag, hart, bull; boar, ram, billy goat; tom, tomcat; cock, gander, drake, rooster. malediction, n. 1. curse, imprecation, damning, damnation, execration, Archaic, malison, anathema; incantation, SI. whammy, voodoo, hoodoo; commina-tion, threat; giving the finger, thumbing one's nose.
2. slander, libel, defamation, traducement, calumny, obloquy; reproach, aspersion, vilification, derogation, vituperation, revilement, invective; denunciation, diatribe, insult, contumely, fulmination, condemnation, proscription, criticism.