malinger
/məˈlɪŋɡɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
verb
To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves."
- "And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me."
- "It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: malingrer
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /məˈlɪŋɡɚ/
- British English: /məˈlɪŋɡə/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
factitious disorder
differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking
to call out someone for
or accuse someone of
either factitious pretense
Frequently Paired Words
factitious disorder
differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking
to call out someone for
or accuse someone of
either factitious pretense
malingering