Dysfunctional

Quick meaning: Dysfunctional is an adjective meaning Not performing its proper or intended function.

Meaning

Not performing its proper or intended function.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”.

It is difficult to find the right words for what has happened in the five years since the May 2018 timetable changes exposed the very dysfunctional nature of the franchise system set up by the privatisation process of the 1990s.

Synonyms for dysfunctional

Depending on context, synonyms include impaired, maladaptive, nonadaptive.

Antonyms for dysfunctional

Common opposites include operational, eufunctional, functional, cooperative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maladaptive, nonadaptive, impaired, defective, faulty, malfunctioning.

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