maladjustment

maladjustment
Synonyms and related words:
abnormality, anomaly, brain disease, crack-up, emotional disorder, emotional instability, functional nervous disorder, impropriety, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, infelicity, insanity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladroitness, manic-depressive psychosis, mediocrity, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, paranoia, pedestrianism, personality disorder, problems in living, psychosis, reaction, rustiness, schizophrenia, skill-lessness, social maladjustment, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, uncongeniality, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, untrainedness

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  • Maladjustment — Mal ad*just ment, n. [Mal + adjustment.] A bad adjustment. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • maladjustment — index disaccord Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • maladjustment — 1823, from MAL (Cf. mal ) + ADJUSTMENT (Cf. adjustment) …   Etymology dictionary

  • maladjustment — n. an emotional maladjustment * * * [ˌmælə dʒʌstmənt] an emotional maladjustment …   Combinatory dictionary

  • maladjustment — In the mental health professions, an inability to cope with the problems and challenges of everyday living. [mal + adjust, fr. O.Fr. adjuster, fr. L.L. adjuxto, to put close to, + ment] social m. m. without manifest psychiatric disorder, as that… …   Medical dictionary

  • maladjustment —    severe mental illness    Literally, faulty adjustment of anything:     I was good at diverting myself, and others, from the deeper causes of my maladjustment . (Irvine, 1986 she was in an institution for the insane)    In educational jargon,… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • maladjustment — noun Date: 1833 poor, faulty, or inadequate adjustment …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • maladjustment — /mal euh just meuhnt/, n. bad or unsatisfactory adjustment. [1825 35; MAL + ADJUSTMENT] * * * …   Universalium

  • maladjustment — noun a) A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism b) The inability to adjust oneself to the needs of others, or to the stresses of normal life …   Wiktionary

  • maladjustment — mal·ad just·ment || ‚mælÉ™ dÊ’ÊŒsmÉ™nt n. inability to adapt to one s environment, poor adjustment …   English contemporary dictionary

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