Usually means: Counterproductive response to environment, stress.
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  1. maladaptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. maladaptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maladaptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maladaptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maladaptive: Vocabulary.com
  6. maladaptive: Wordnik
  7. maladaptive: Wiktionary
  8. maladaptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. maladaptive: Dictionary.com
  10. Maladaptive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. maladaptive: Rhymezone
  12. maladaptive: FreeDictionary.org
  13. maladaptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. maladaptive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maladaptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Maladaptive: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (maladaptive)

adjective:  (psychology, chiefly of behaviour) Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
adjective:  (evolution, of anatomy, physiology, or behavior) Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.

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