cade; path, garden path, close, alley, passage, lane, street, road; parade, esplanade, boardwalk, public walk, boulevard.
2. median, median strip, medial strip, middle, middle of the road.
3. shopping center, shopping plaza, plaza, shopping complex.
malleable, adj. 1. extensile, extensible, ductile, tractile, plastic, stretchable; bendable, flexible, flexile, flexuous, pliant, pliable, whippy; elastic, supple, lithe, limber, willowy, lissom; yielding, bending, shapable, moldable, fictile.
2. adaptable, adjustable, resilient, movable, mobile; tractable, manageable, governable, corrigible, domi-table; impressible, impressionable, susceptible, persua-sible, suasible; responsive, receptive, sensitive, amenable, influenceable; formable, teachable, educable, trainable, docile, tamable, domesticable.
mallet, n. 1. beetle, hammer, gavel; tapper, tamper, pounder, rammer.
2. club, stick, croquet mallet, Golf, wood, Golf. driver.
malnutrition, n. undernourishment, poor diet, unbalanced diet, starvation, Psychiatry, anorexia; emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, wasting away; weakening, enfeeblement, impairment, enervation, inanition, exhaustion, prostration, Psychiatry. anorexia nervosa.
malodorous, adj. fetid, reeky, reeking, smelly, stinky, stinking, stenchful, foul-smelling, ill-smelling, strongsmelling, odorous; noisome, mephitic, foul, rank, offensive, disgusting, nauseating, sickening, unpleasant, disagreeable; putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, tainted, spoiled, strong, game, putrescent, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmatical, miasmic; dirty, unwashed, unclean; stuffy, moldy, musty, fusty, frowzy, stale, unfresh, close.
malpractice, n. 1. misdeed, offense, violation, transgression, fault, Law. tort, Both Law. malfeasance, misfeasance, Chiefly Law. malversation; negligence, dereliction, laxity; corruption, graft, jobbery, wrongdoing.
2. abuse, misuse, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation; misconduct, misbehavior, behavior unbefitting [s.o.], unethical practice, impropriety, indecorum, Obs. misdoing.
maltreat, v. abuse, mistreat, injure. See - mistreat.
maltreatment, n. abuse, mistreatment, battery. See - mistreatment.
mama's boy, n. milksop, sop, mollycoddle, sissy, weakling, Inf. pantywaist, SI. pansy, SI. wimp; namby-pamby, Inf. jellyfish, Walter Mitty; SI. schlepp, SI. schlemiel, SI. nebbish, SI. schnook, SI. twirp, SI. twit, SI. nerd; Inf. lightweight, featherweight, SI. pushover, SI. patsy, SI. sap; loser, SI. sad sack.
mammon, n. riches, means, wealth, opulence, affluence, fortune, money, U.S. SI. bucks, SI. dough, lucre, Disparaging, pelf.
mammonist, n. mammonite, materialist, bourgeois; rich man, man of means, plutocrat, millionaire, billionaire, nabob.
mammoth, n. 1. elephant.
-adj. 2. huge, enormous, gigantic, titanic, gargantuan, very large or big, monstrous, SI. humongous, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean; vast, colossal, monumental, gigantean, immense, prodigious, stupendous, tremendous, herculean; great, great big, towering, staggering, astronomical, mountainous; elephantine, massive, ponderous, very heavy, bulky, hulking; hippopo-tamic, leviathan, dinosaurian, dinotherian, megatheri-an; jumbo, oversize, kingsize, overlarge; All Inf.