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dysfunctional

adj

Etymology

From dysfunction + -al.

  1. derived from *bʰewg-✻
  2. derived from functiō — “performance, execution”
  3. derived from fonction
  4. borrowed from function
  5. formed as dysfunction — “dys- + function”
  6. suffixed as dysfunctional — “dysfunction + al”

Definitions

  1. Not performing its proper or intended function.

  2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally

    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”.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA