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dysfunctional

About 1.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Not performing its proper or intended function.
  2. adjective 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.

Similar words

maladaptive nonadaptive impaired defective faulty malfunctioning flawed inefficient ineffective deficient

Often followed by

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