Malaised

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Affected by a general feeling of discomfort, unease, or mild sickness without a specific identifiable cause
2. Experiencing a state of general discomfort or unease resulting from vague or unspecified feelings of illness
3. Feeling a pervasive sense of dissatisfaction or symptomatic unease that lacks a clear origin

Etymology: "Malaised" is the past participle or adjectival form of "malaise," so it inherits the noun's history. "Malaise" entered English from French, where "malaise" meant "discomfort" or "uneasiness," and it is built from "mal" (bad, ill) and "aise" (ease), so the word literally pairs "ill" with "ease." Its French parent was itself used for physical sickness before taking on the vaguer sense of a general unwellness that has no clear cause. The "-ed" ending turns the noun into an adjective describing someone who is in that state. Because "malaise" names a feeling without an identifiable source, "malaised" describes a person who feels off-colour or low in spirits without being able to point to a specific illness.

Synonyms: unwell, sick, ill, discomforted, dissatisfied

Antonyms: healthy, well, content, satisfied, thriving