malamente

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese malamente. By surface analysis, mala +‎ -mente.

• IPA^(key): /malaˈmente/ [ma.laˈmẽn̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ente

malamente

1. badly, poorly

   Synonym: mal

2. barely; hardly

   Synonym: escasamente

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “malamente”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “malamente”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “malamente”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malamente”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “malamente”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From malo +‎ -mente.

• IPA^(key): /ma.laˈmen.te/
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: ma‧la‧mén‧te

malamente

1. dishonestly
2. badly, wrongly, incorrectly
3. rudely

• malmenate

From mala +‎ -mente.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmalaˈmente/ [ˌma.laˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: ma‧la‧men‧te

malamente

1. badly, poorly

   Synonym: (more common) mal

   Antonym: buenamente

2. barely; hardly

   Synonym: apenas

• “malamente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025