Usually means: Harmful; bad in nature, intent.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word mal:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. mal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mal, mal-: Merriam-Webster
  3. MAL, Mal, mal-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mal, mal-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. MAL, Mal, mal-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mal, Mal, mal, mal-: Wordnik
  7. mal-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mal, mal, mal-: Wiktionary
  9. Mal, mal-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mal-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mal-: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. MAL, Mal-, Mal, mal-: Dictionary.com
  13. mal-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. MAL (gene), MAL, Mal (caste), Mal (name), Mal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mal-: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mal-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Mal-, mal, mal, mal, mal (de), mal (m), mal (maux) (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. mal, mal-: MyWord.info
  20. mal-: FreeDictionary.org
  21. MAL, Mal, mal-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Mal: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mal-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MAL, mal-: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. mal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Mal-: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. mal, mal-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. MAL: Acronym Finder
  3. MAL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mal: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.A.L, mal: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (only in set phrases) illness, affliction.
noun:  (surfing) A longboard (type of surfboard).
noun:  (medicine, informal) A malleolus.
noun:  A short form of given names such as Mallory, Malcolm etc.
noun:  (linguistics) A Mon-Khmer language of Laos and Thailand.

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