Dysfunctional

Definition: Dysfunctional

Dysfunctional

Adjective

1. Impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ.

2. (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose; "dysfunctional behavior".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Dysfunctional

Crosswords: Dysfunctional

Excuse me, that f g chair is dysfunctional. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garc�a Estrada)

This is so f g dysfunctional. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garc�a Estrada)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families (reference)

• Forgiving Our Parents Forgiving Ourselves: Healing Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (reference)

• I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions (reference)

• Radical Parenting: Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World (reference)

• Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Adult Children of Dysfunctional Famil (reference)

• Programming the Dysfunctional Brain (reference)

• Tenchi Muyo - Dysfunctional Duo (Vol. 6, TV Version) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Dysfunctional Family Christmas (reference)

• Dysfunctional (reference)

• Waltz of the Wallflowers (A Dysfunctional Duet) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Exogenous hormones and dysfunctional... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The degree of avoidance may vary from mild to moderate or, at the extreme, to a constricted lifestyle imposed by severe avoidance, resulting in the individual's being nearly or completely housebound or otherwise severely dysfunctional. (references)

Among the NINDS publications that may be of interest to those concerned about Parkinson's disease is "Know Your Brain," an 8-page fact sheet that explains how the healthy brain works and what happens when the brain is diseased or dysfunctional. (references)

The compulsion to use drugs can take over the individual's life. Addiction often involves not only compulsive drug taking but also a wide range of dysfunctional behaviors that can interfere with normal functioning in the family, the workplace, and the broader community. (references)

Children

Lithuania

In 2000 the Ministry identified 36,856 children in abusive and dysfunctional families, a 44 percent increase since 1995. In July the head of a working team set up by the President in 2000 to improve the protection of children's rights called for the establishment of a central agency to oversee children's rights policy and coordinate central and local governments' efforts to combat child abuse; however, such an agency had not been created by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Due to Ecuador' s dysfunctional justice system, investors and lenders often do not receive prompt, adequate and effective compensation. (references)

Haiti

Many in the private sector provide services (such as health care) for their workers that are not provided by dysfunctional state agencies. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

The civil judiciary, including lower courts, appellate courts, the Supreme Court, and the Court of State Security, largely was dysfunctional. (references)

Croatia

Local housing commissions, to which the vast majority of cases were referred, often were purposefully dysfunctional and failed to resolve housing disputes, or when functional were powerless legally to implement their own decisions under an existing legal framework that remained unaddressed by the Government. (references)

Political Economy

Eq. Guinea

Corruption and a dysfunctional judicial system disrupt development of Equatorial Guinea's economy and society. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

不正常. (various references)

Danish

blødningsforstyrrelse (dysfunctional uterine bleeding), abnorm vaginalblødning (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Dutch

dysfunctionele bloeding van de baarmoeder (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Finnish

metrorragia (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

French

saignement utérin dysfonctionnel (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Greek 

δυσλειτουργική αιμορραγία μήτρας (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Italian

sanguinamento uterino disfunzionale (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Russian 

дисфункциональный. (various references)

Spanish

hemorragia uterina disfuncional (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งทำหน้าที่ผิ�"ปกติ. (various references)

Misspellings

"Dysfunctional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: difunctional, disfunctional, dysfunctionalism, dysfunctionality, dysfunctionally. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dysfunction.

-3 letters: confidants, factiously, functional, inoculants, nonfaculty.

-4 letters: confidant, continual, countians, custodial, custodian, fountains, functions, inoculant, lunations, nonadults, nonfluids, suctional, synodical.

-5 letters: actinons, acyloins, anodynic, anticold, antlions, auctions, cannolis, canonist, cautions, conduits, contains, continua, countian, cousinly, dactylus, daltonic, dicotyls, disannul, discount, dynastic, dystocia, dystonia, dystonic, factions, factious, factoids, folacins, fondants, fontinas, fountain, fucoidal, function.