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Meaning of "maladjustive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MALADJUSTIVE

maladjustive  [ˌmæləˈdʒʌstɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MALADJUSTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Maladjustive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MALADJUSTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of maladjustive in the English dictionary

The definition of maladjustive in the dictionary is poorly adjusted or not favorable for adjustment.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MALADJUSTIVE


adjustive
əˈdʒʌstɪv
aerodigestive
ˌɛərəʊdɪˈdʒɛstɪv
arrestive
əˈrestɪv
assistive
əˈsɪstɪv
combustive
kəmˈbʌstɪv
congestive
kənˈdʒɛstɪv
contrastive
kənˈtrɑːstɪv
costive
ˈkɒstɪv
decongestive
ˌdɪkənˈdʒɛstɪv
digestive
dɪˈdʒɛstɪv
egestive
ɪˈdʒɛstɪv
exhaustive
ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv
festive
ˈfɛstɪv
inexhaustive
ˌɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪv
ingestive
ɪnˈdʒɛstɪv
intempestive
ˌɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv
resistive
rɪˈzɪstɪv
restive
ˈrɛstɪv
suggestive
səˈdʒɛstɪv
tempestive
tɛmˈpɛstɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MALADJUSTIVE

malacophily
malacophyllous
malacopterygian
malacostracan
malacostracous
maladaptation
maladapted
maladaptive
maladaptively
maladdress
maladies
maladjusted
maladjustment
maladminister
maladministration
maladministrator
maladroit
maladroitly
maladroitness
malady

WORDS THAT END LIKE MALADJUSTIVE

active
alternative
automotive
autosuggestive
competitive
contragestive
cooperative
creative
effective
executive
in the negative
interactive
locorestive
native
negative
persistive
perspective
positive
relative
stive

Synonyms and antonyms of maladjustive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «maladjustive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MALADJUSTIVE

Find out the translation of maladjustive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of maladjustive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «maladjustive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

maladjustive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maladjustive
570 millions of speakers

English

maladjustive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

maladjustive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

maladjustive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

maladjustive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

maladjustive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

maladjustive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maladjustive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Maladjustive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

maladjustive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不適応
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

maladjustive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Maladjustive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

maladjustive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

maladjustive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्दैवी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

maladjustive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maladjustive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maladjustive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

maladjustive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maladjustive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

maladjustive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maladjustive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

maladjustive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maladjustive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of maladjustive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MALADJUSTIVE»

The term «maladjustive» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.755 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MALADJUSTIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about maladjustive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALADJUSTIVE»

Discover the use of maladjustive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to maladjustive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cognition, Culture and Field Dependence - Independence
Maladjustive. Behavior. Maladjustment, Erikson (1967) asserts develops when an individual fails to develop senses of trust, autonomy, competence, accomplishments and differentiated identity. These "senses" as Erikson calls them are very ...
Ayuba Y. Mshelia, 2008
2
Philosophical Practice
In fact, the letter of section 2903 itself embodies intellectually maladjustive attitudes, in that it wrongfully yet lawfully ascribes solely to psychologists the expertise (which they do not have) and the authority (which they should not have) to ...
Lou Marinoff, 2001
3
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return ...
Minority behavior can be considered adjustive or maladjustive depending on whether it has positive or negative psychological consequences for individuals. Maladjustment occurs when behavior impairs psychological functioning in some way ...
Takeyuki Tsuda, 2013
4
Making health decisions
However, when people are always in a dream or fantasy world, they are protecting themselves, but in a maladjustive way. In this dream world they are neither functional nor productive individuals. Overuse or overde- pendency on any one of ...
Ben Curt Gmur, 1975
5
American Jounal Psychiatry, 1844-1994
Ignoring that section of the population in the case of which serious physical factors exist,2 we can distinguish three sorts of maladjustive processes which do not lead immediately to arrest of the individual's struggle.3 They include sublimatary ...
American Psychiatric Association, 1994
6
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
He changes his maladjustive behaviors, even such a long-established one as chronic alcoholism. He becomes more acceptant of others. He becomes more open to the evidence, both to what 280 WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ...
Carl Ransom Rogers, 1995
7
The Harvard Educational Review
When maladjustive avoidance behavior and resistances occur, they may be followed by a reduction in the intensity of the underlying emotional reaction and motivation. This reduction in intensity is a condition of reinforcement. Thereafter, the ...
Howard Eugene Wilson, 1962
8
Psychotherapy and the Obsessed Patient
... the danger of over- interpreting the maladjustive or pathological aspect of a phenomenon, I want to explore the positive aspect of obsession. Just as demonstrated in the yin-yang symbol where the whole contains both dark and light, and the ...
E. Mark Stern, 1987
9
Educational Psychology
This latter is one of the most pernicious features of maladjustive behaviour It frequently initiates, maintains, and augments a vicious circle of inadequate and inappropriate responses. Symptoms of Chronic Maladjustment The following kinds of ...
D. N. Tutoo, 1998
10
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in ...
Frison, Wallander, and Browne (1998) found that cultural factors that measured areas such as identification with one's ethnic group and church support were protective against certain types of maladjustive behaviors for which adolescent ...
Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, 2004

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALADJUSTIVE»

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Physical Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorders
These researchers report that that at the end of 16 weeks, children in the GRTL yoga program showed reduced maladjustive behaviors as ... «Brain Blogger, Feb 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Maladjustive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/maladjustive>. Apr 2024 ».
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