Meaning

2 senses
  1. Not performing its proper or intended function.

  2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

    Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.

    Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.

    dysfunktional

    дисфункциона́льныйdisfunkcionálʹnyj

More definitions
  • (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose
  • impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom grew up in a dysfunctional family.

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  2. Tom and I both come from dysfunctional families.

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  3. Both Tom and I come from dysfunctional families.

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  4. Tom and Mary both come from dysfunctional families.

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  5. Tom is clearly dysfunctional.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
functioning incorrectly or abnormally:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
functioning incorrectly or abnormally:

Forms

more dysfunctional, most dysfunctional

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose:nonadaptive

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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