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单词 malaise
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Definition of malaise in English:

malaise

noun maˈleɪzməˈleɪz
mass noun
  • A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify.

    a general air of malaise
    in singular a society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such errors are symptomatic of a deeper malaise in these programmes.
    • The unemployment rate provides one indication of the Japanese economic malaise.
    • It is easy to see how these long term weaknesses are aggravating the current malaise.
    • Geldof's frustration at the highly volatile media sector's malaise is clear.
    • The African Book Famine emerged as one depressing aspect of widespread educational malaise.
    • The patient began to experience malaise and pain in the upper abdomen.
    • High malaise scores in adulthood were also significantly associated with higher risk.
    • It is this same distortion of values which is at the root of the malaise in general practice.
    • The castle's demise is part of a general malaise within SNH that has affected the whole of the island, he said.
    • Shouldn't we be examining these techniques as a treatment for our own malaise?
    • Can China help lift the world's poorest region out of its deep economic and political malaise?
    • Prior to the most recent malaise, some stock market cheerleaders had been talking in terms of a rally.
    • Very often the initial eruption is accompanied by fever, malaise and what appear to be sore gums.
    • Humiliation or manhandling of officials is not the solution to this malaise.
    • His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
    • He had malaise, lethargy, and poor appetite but no history of night sweats.
    • So it's vaguely disappointing that I am probably suffering from a disappointingly vague malaise.
    • He's certainly improved from his involvement at the start of the season when he got caught in the general malaise of the team.
    • It was an act of fiscal machismo, which many in the party believe is the root of the current mid-term malaise.
    • The disease has an insidious onset and presents with fever, malaise and weakness.
    Synonyms
    unhappiness, restlessness, uneasiness, unease, melancholy, depression, despondency, dejection, disquiet, trouble, anxiety, anguish, angst
    ailment(s), ills
    lassitude, listlessness, languor, weariness, enervation, doldrums
    weakness, feebleness, debility, indisposition, infirmity, illness, sickness, disease, discomfort
    German Weltschmerz
    French ennui

Origin

Mid 18th century: from French, from Old French mal 'bad' (from Latin malus) + aise 'ease'.

  • malice from Middle English:

    Malice goes back to Latin malus ‘bad’, the source also of malign (Middle English), malaise (mid 18th century), and the first part of malevolent (early 16th century), the second half being from Latin velle ‘to wish’. Since the 15th century malice has been a legal term, found especially in malice aforethought, the intention to kill or harm which distinguishes murder from manslaughter.

Rhymes

ablaze, amaze, appraise, baize, Blaise, blaze, braise, broderie anglaise, chaise, craze, daze, écossaise, erase, faze, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, Hays, haze, laze, liaise, lyonnaise, maize, Marseillaise, mayonnaise, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, polonaise, praise, prase, raise, raze, upraise
 
 

Definition of malaise in US English:

malaise

nounməˈlāzməˈleɪz
  • A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.

    a general air of malaise
    a society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The African Book Famine emerged as one depressing aspect of widespread educational malaise.
    • The disease has an insidious onset and presents with fever, malaise and weakness.
    • Can China help lift the world's poorest region out of its deep economic and political malaise?
    • Humiliation or manhandling of officials is not the solution to this malaise.
    • The patient began to experience malaise and pain in the upper abdomen.
    • Geldof's frustration at the highly volatile media sector's malaise is clear.
    • It was an act of fiscal machismo, which many in the party believe is the root of the current mid-term malaise.
    • Very often the initial eruption is accompanied by fever, malaise and what appear to be sore gums.
    • His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
    • He's certainly improved from his involvement at the start of the season when he got caught in the general malaise of the team.
    • Prior to the most recent malaise, some stock market cheerleaders had been talking in terms of a rally.
    • High malaise scores in adulthood were also significantly associated with higher risk.
    • The castle's demise is part of a general malaise within SNH that has affected the whole of the island, he said.
    • It is easy to see how these long term weaknesses are aggravating the current malaise.
    • Such errors are symptomatic of a deeper malaise in these programmes.
    • It is this same distortion of values which is at the root of the malaise in general practice.
    • The unemployment rate provides one indication of the Japanese economic malaise.
    • He had malaise, lethargy, and poor appetite but no history of night sweats.
    • Shouldn't we be examining these techniques as a treatment for our own malaise?
    • So it's vaguely disappointing that I am probably suffering from a disappointingly vague malaise.
    Synonyms
    unhappiness, restlessness, uneasiness, unease, melancholy, depression, despondency, dejection, disquiet, trouble, anxiety, anguish, angst

Origin

Mid 18th century: from French, from Old French mal ‘bad’ (from Latin malus) + aise ‘ease’.

 
 
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