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Adjective: maladjusted  `ma-lu'jús-tid
  1. Poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living
    "a maladjusted child"
     
  2. Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
    - disturbed
     
  3. Not well adjusted
    "a maladjusted carburettor"

See also: neurotic, psychoneurotic, unadapted, unadjusted

Antonym: adjusted

Encyclopedia: Maladjusted

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