malade

Inherited from Middle French malade, from Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.lad/

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malade (plural malades)

1. ill, unwell, sick

   Elle est si malade qu’elle ne peut pas venir.

   She is so ill that she cannot come.

2. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental

   Synonyms: taré, cinglé, fou

malade m or f by sense (plural malades)

1. an ill or sick person; a patient
2. (informal) someone who is crazy; a nutcase
   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:

     "Ciboire! Il a joui en l’étranglant! C’est un hostie de malade!."

     "What the hell! He came while strangling him. He's a damn nutcase!"

3. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)

   Synonyms: fou m, folle f

   C’est un malade de cinéma. ― He's a cinema nut.

• garde-malade
• malade comme un chien
• malade de la gâchette
• malade mental
• malade mentalement
• maladie
• mentalement malade
• tomber malade

• “malade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French malade.

• IPA^(key): /maˈlaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə

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malade (strong nominative masculine singular malader, not comparable)

1. (colloquial, dated) ill, unwell, sick

• “malade” in Duden online
• “malade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).

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malade m or f

1. (Jersey) ill

• maladie (“illness”)

malade m (oblique and nominative feminine singular malade)

1. ill, unwell, sick

• French: malade