The Latin root mal means bad or evil. Doctors make use of the root mal to deal with all kinds of problems. An example is the word malfunction.
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The Greek root "mal" means bad or evil. It is used in words like malice (desire to harm), malign (evil in nature), and malaise (general feeling of discomfort).
The root word "mal" typically denotes something negative or bad. This prefix is commonly used in words to indicate wrongdoing or evil, such as "malfunction" or "malicious."
It is actually a prefix. The prefix that means bad is mal-.
It's not like deci-meter. The root of decimal is decim. Adding -al to it makes it an adjective.
Mal (in spanish, and the prefix) means bad or ill.
Mal means bad, or badly.
It means bad (example: maladjusted.)
Mal voisin means bad neighbour
The root word of malcontent is "mal" which means bad or evil, and "content" which refers to satisfaction.
Darth maul mal is Spanish for bad, as in "not good." The opposite of good.
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