dysfunctional

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Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
13

Definition of dysfunctional

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not performing its proper or intended function.
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adj

  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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From dysfunction + -al.

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