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Meanings of dysfunctional in English

(Of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose.

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Examples for "nonadaptive"
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The spandrels originated as a nonadaptive side-consequence of a prior architectural decision.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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The latter may be subdivided further into adaptive (selection) and nonadaptive factors.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Behavior is screaming forward, and it might be nonadaptive.
The Lost World
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These stress-mediated maternal effects can have nonadaptive consequences for offspring when they find themselves alone with a predator.
Pubmed
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In the second group of "insinuations," nonadaptive features may enter the exaptive pool by neutral drift.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Usage of dysfunctional in English
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His adversaries say these problems are the result of dysfunctional socialist policies.
Reuters
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Its politics are dysfunctional, its society badly fractured and its economy weakened.
The Irish Times
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Rather, they dealt with two other notoriously dysfunctional regimes: France and Ireland.
The Irish Times
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But he continues to view the housing market here as being dysfunctional.
The Irish Times
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Cape Town suffers from a dysfunctional urban phenomenon known as 'inverse densification'.
The South African
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Zombieland: Double Tap sees the original four zombie-hunters expand their dysfunctional family.
Radio NZ
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It's time to break away from the failing and dysfunctional EU system.
Radio NZ
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And then there is the perennial problem of the dysfunctional career structure.
The Guardian
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Are regional competitors destroying the dysfunctional government in their play for power?
News.com.au
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Her dysfunctional family comes to her aid, each bringing his own baggage.
Reuters
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An already dysfunctional housing market has been further distorted by the lockdown.
Independent.ie
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My so-called relatives could have posed for the poster of dysfunctional families.
When darkness comes
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By contrast, they are still locked into a dysfunctional marriage with France.
The Irish Times
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Compared with non-patient controls, the cases showed dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs and self-schemas.
Pubmed
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But in the financial tsunami of late 2008, the swaps were dysfunctional.
The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
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Private equity would break the back of Detroit's highly dysfunctional corporate culture.
Wired
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