maladaptive
About 0.91 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
- adjective Of anatomy, physiology, or behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.
Similar words
dysfunctional maladjustive nonadaptive maladaptative maladjusted misbehavioral pathological misbehavioural ill-behaved incorrect
Often followed by
behavior behaviors coping and patterns responses in pattern response
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