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Meaning of "malingerer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MALINGERER

malingerer  [məˈlɪŋɡərə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MALINGERER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Malingerer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MALINGERER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Malingering

In medicine, malingering is fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of "secondary gain" motives, which may include financial compensation; avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs; getting lighter criminal sentences; or simply to attract attention or sympathy. Malingering is different from somatization disorder and factitious disorder. Failure to detect actual cases of malingering imposes a substantial economic burden on the health care system, and false attribution of malingering imposes a substantial burden of suffering on a significant proportion of the patient population.

Definition of malingerer in the English dictionary

The definition of malingerer in the dictionary is someone who pretends or exaggerates illness, esp to avoid work.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MALINGERER


agora
ˈæɡərə
disfigurer
dɪsˈfɪɡərə
figurer
ˈfɪɡərə
fingerer
ˈfɪŋɡərə
lingerer
ˈlɪŋɡərə
mandragora
mænˈdræɡərə
Megara
ˈmɛɡərə
schlumbergera
ʃləmˈbɜːɡərə
sniggerer
ˈsnɪɡərə
staggerer
ˈstæɡərə
sugarer
ˈʃʊɡərə
swaggerer
ˈswæɡərə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MALINGERER

malignancy
malignant
malignantly
maligner
malignities
malignity
malignly
malignment
malihini
malik
malimprinted
malimprinting
malines
malinger
malingery
Malinke
Malinowski
Maliseet
malism
malison

WORDS THAT END LIKE MALINGERER

adulterer
axe-murderer
bletherer
caterer
discoverer
endangerer
Federer
gatherer
hinderer
hunter-gatherer
murderer
natterer
offerer
renderer
sorcerer
sufferer
tinkerer
wagerer
wanderer
whisperer

Synonyms and antonyms of malingerer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «malingerer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MALINGERER

Find out the translation of malingerer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of malingerer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «malingerer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

装病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

malingerer
570 millions of speakers

English

malingerer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

malingerer
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متمارض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

симулянт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

malingerer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রোগভানকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faux malade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Malingerer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Simulant
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

malingerer
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

꾀병을 부리는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Malingerer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

malingerer
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாசாங்குப் பேர்வழி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनधिकृत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

numaradan hasta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malingerer
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

malingerer
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

симулянт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

simulant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσπιούμενος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

simulant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

malingerer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

simulantenes
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of malingerer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MALINGERER»

The term «malingerer» is normally little used and occupies the 133.921 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MALINGERER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about malingerer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALINGERER»

Discover the use of malingerer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to malingerer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception, Third Edition
CLASSIFICATION OF MALINGERED PTSD Clinical Indicators Every malingerer is an actor playing a role, and the performance will mirror the individual's preparation (Ossipov, 1944). A lack of detailed knowledge regarding PTSD will likely ...
Richard Rogers, 2012
2
Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management
Malingerer. To provide appropriate care for patients with chronic pain, the clinician must be able to trust the patient's reports of discomfort and pain experiences, because there are no objective measures of pain. The clinician must also ...
Dawn Marcus, 2009
3
Handbook of Trial Consulting
To qualify as a definite malingerer, the patient must meet criteria A, B1, and D; meaning there must be substantial external incentive, the presence of a definite negative response bias on neuropsychological test(s), and no psychiatric, ...
Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, 2011
4
Valuing People with a Learning Disability
Malingerer is not a role in any ofthese senses. Some might place an individual in this 'role'; others might disagree. The role in which the person is placed correlates with the value ascribed to that person. People might agree that the person was ...
Steve Mee, 2012
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Somatoform Disorders: A Medicolegal Guide
Huddleston (1932) suggested that it was possible to detect malingerers by their attitude: The out and out malingerer is usually detectable by various bits of evidence: peculiar attitudes towards the examination - generally suspicious, sometimes ...
Michael Trimble, 2004
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Neuropsychology for Psychologists, Health Care ...
Thus, there is arelatively highriskoffailingtoidentify a malingerer on the basis of these four criteria. Of greater concern is their very poor specificity to malingering. Rogers reports that 80%of individuals with two or more of these indices being ...
Robert J. Sbordone, Ronald E. Saul, Arnold D. Purisch, 2007
7
Textbook of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases
The patient is asked if he hears it, a malingerer will maintain one ear as deaf. The fork on the deaf side is advanced to 3 inches from the ear and on the other side to 6 inches. The malingerer will now deny hearing the fork with the normal ear ...
Mohammad Maqbool, Suhail Maqbool, 2013
8
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? Fourth Edition: ...
The symptoms are usually of sudden onset and have some connection with a situation the malingerer is keen to avoid; see Enoch (1990) and Heinze (2003) for the uses of psychological testing. See also Resnick (1994), Pollock (1996) and ...
Herschel Prins, 2010
9
Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language
Finally, a sixth patient (the possible malingerer) scored 0% correct at recall and 18.5% correct at recognition (chance1⁄441.7%). His overall score on the public events and famous faces recognition tests was 2.75 standard deviations below the ...
Harry A. Whitaker, 2010
10
Beasley's Surgery of the Hand
The Malingerer The difference between the malingerer and the patient with a serious psychiatric disturbance may not always be clear. In fact, the malingerer may also suffer from psychiatric disturbances to which the malingering has no direct ...
Robert W. Beasley, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALINGERER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term malingerer is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ex-doc in Vegas hepatitis C spread sentenced
... meanwhile, branded Desai a malingerer who tried to con psychiatrists and physicians to avoid the consequences of egregious criminal and ... «Northwest Asian Weekly, Jul 15»
2
Life and times of Jacqui Lambie
... fought a five-year and, ultimately, successful campaign against the Department of Veterans' Affairs' conclusion that she was a malingerer. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
3
Ex-Doc in Vegas Hepatitis C Spread Sentenced in Federal Case
State and federal prosecutors, meanwhile, branded Desai a malingerer who tried to con psychiatrists and physicians to avoid the ... «KSTP.com, Jul 15»
4
Review: 'The Ghost in My Brain' by Clark Elliott
"I had been treated with suspicions that I was a malingerer, a troublemaker, and perhaps a scam artist." When his losses were taken seriously, ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Lyme disease spelled out
If that doctor treated you as a malingerer, outrageously suggesting you had a need for attention and made up, somehow, the interrupted brain ... «Keypennews, Jun 15»
6
The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, 1815
A cavalry officer not dead by 30, they say, is a malingerer. They have been standing here all day, occasional cannon balls dropping into their ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
Why a trick of the mind can make you blind: The strange …
... a consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in central London, seen a confirmed malingerer. She believes they are ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
8
Our View: Jail is the wrong way to make offenders pay fines
I do not assume that everyone is a malingerer who takes advantage. But I am saying that it is very real, that it happens and that I have seen it ... «Press Herald, Jun 15»
9
Numbers signing on Live Register fall again in May
“The inept enforcement and over-generous nature of the welfare system is aiding the malingerer.” “ Eliminating the number of long-term ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
10
Queen and Country, film review: a lovely post-war reminiscence
Pat Shortt is equally funny as Private Redmond, a malingerer who takes skiving to a truly heroic level. Boorman spends considerable time ... «The Independent, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Malingerer [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/malingerer>. May 2024 ».
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