It's Merriam Webster's Word of the Day for August 7th.

Today's word is malaise, also pronounced malaise, and spelled M-A-L-A-I-S-E.

malaise is a noun.

It refers to a slight or general feeling of not being healthy or happy.

Here's the word used in a sentence from The Hollywood Reporter.

Despite its less than satisfying ending, Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse serves the coolest

animated kids I've seen since Miles felt that first bite from a radioactive spider five

years ago.

The movie opens with an all-girl multiracial garage band, coping with Gwen Stacy's malaise,

and ends with a team as powerful as rock stars ready to save the world.

A recipe.

Combine a handful of the blas, a pinch of the blues, and maybe a soupsong of Henri, seasoned

generously with under the weather, and Voila!

You've got yourself the stew of sinking sensations known as malaise.

Maleise whose old French ancestor was formed from the combination of mal, meaning bad,

and is, meaning comfort, has been a part of English since the mid-18th century.

It originally referred to a vague feeling of weakness or discomfort accompanying the

onset of an illness, a meaning still in use today when a virus or other malady starts

producing symptoms, but has since broadened to cover a general ominous sense of mental

or moral ill-being, with your word of the day on Peter Sokolowski.

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