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Maladjusted

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Adjusted badly or wrongly.

    "In practice, the most frequently encountered problems relate to maladjusted monitors, which affect the display of images, […]"

  2. 2
    Badly adjusted to the demands and stresses of daily living; unable to cope.

    "Throughout my career as a music journalist, I've often found myself sharing the same orbit as some of the more maladjusted talents of the late 20th century, but nothing could have prepared me for the time I spent with Serge Gainsbourg, the louche, turtle-eyed genius of la chanson Française, little more than two years before his death."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not well adjusted wordnet
  2. 2
    poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living wordnet
  3. 3
    emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of maladjust form-of, participle, past

Etymology

From mal- + adjusted.

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