malnourished

From mal- +‎ nourished.

malnourished (comparative more malnourished, superlative most malnourished)

1. Suffering from malnutrition.
   • 2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.

   • 2015 December 23, Tiffany Ap and Artemis Moshtaghian, “Neglected boy shut in room with heater on dies of hyperthermia”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”

• underfed
• undernourished

• well-fed

• malnutrition

malnourished

1. simple past and past participle of malnourish