Usually means: Inadequately adjusted to environmental demands.
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  1. maladjustive: Merriam-Webster
  2. maladjustive: Collins English Dictionary
  3. maladjustive: Vocabulary.com
  4. maladjustive: Wiktionary
  5. maladjustive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. maladjustive: Dictionary.com
  7. maladjustive: Rhymezone
  8. maladjustive: FreeDictionary.org
  9. maladjustive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. maladjustive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maladjustive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.

Similar:
maladaptive, maladaptative, maladjusted, miscommunicative, misbehavioral, mal-developed, misnatured, malaligned, misbehavioural, disjustive, more...

Opposite:
adaptive, well-adjusted, functional, well-adapted

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Similar:
maladaptive, maladaptative, maladjusted, miscommunicative, misbehavioral, mal-developed, misnatured, malaligned, misbehavioural, disjustive, more...

Opposite:
adaptive, well-adjusted, functional, well-adapted



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