It took Tom years to work through all the issues caused by his growing up in a dysfunctional family.
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Dysfunctional
Synonyms for "dysfunctional" (4 found)
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4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 23 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- disfuncional adj (not performing properly)
- disfuncional adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Danish
1 entries- dysfunktionel adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Dutch
1 entries- disfunctioneel adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Finnish
4 entries- dysfunktionaalinen adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
- rikkinäinen adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
- toimimaton adj (not performing properly)
- vajaakuntoinen adj (not performing properly)
French
2 entries- dysfonctionnel adj (not performing properly)
- dysfonctionnel adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Georgian
1 entries- დისფუნქციური adj (not performing properly)
German
1 entries- dysfunktional adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Greek
1 entries- δυσλειτουργικός adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Hungarian
1 entries- diszfunkcionális adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Irish
1 entries- mífheidhmiúil adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Italian
2 entries- disfunzionale adj (not performing properly)
- disfunzionale adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Māori
1 entries- turingonge (ngonge) adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dysfunksjonell adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- dysfunksjonell adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- дисфункционални adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Polish
4 entries- dysfunkcjonalny adj (not performing properly)
- dysfunkcjonalny adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
- dysfunkcyjny adj (not performing properly)
- dysfunkcyjny adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Portuguese
1 entries- disfuncional adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Romanian
2 entries- disfuncțional adj (not performing properly)
- disfuncțional adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Russian
1 entries- дисфункциона́льный adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Spanish
1 entries- disfuncional adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Swedish
1 entries- dysfunktionell adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Turkish
2 entries- disfonksiyonel adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
- işlevsiz adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Welsh
1 entries- camweithredol adj (functioning incorrectly or abnormally)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
All families are, to a greater or lesser extent, dysfunctional.
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It's hard to imagine a family more dysfunctional than ours.
Source: tatoeba (3953255)
Tom and Mary both come from dysfunctional families.
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