Usually means: Poorly suited for current environment.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. maladapted: Merriam-Webster
  2. maladapted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maladapted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maladapted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maladapted: Wiktionary
  6. maladapted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. maladapted: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. maladapted: Dictionary.com
  9. maladapted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maladapted: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (maladapted)

▸ adjective:  Of any evolving or learning entity, not well adapted for its environment.

Similar:
ill-adapted, unadapted, inadaptable, unadaptable, nonadaptive, nonadapted, inadaptive, uncoping, unadaptive, improper, more...

Opposite:
well-adapted, adapted, suited, adjusted

Types:
vestigial, atavistic, retrogressive, degenerate, degenerative, regressive, devolutionary, more...



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Similar:
ill-adapted, unadapted, inadaptable, unadaptable, nonadaptive, nonadapted, inadaptive, uncoping, unadaptive, improper, more...

Opposite:
well-adapted, adapted, suited, adjusted

Types:
vestigial, atavistic, retrogressive, degenerate, degenerative, regressive, devolutionary, more...



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