Recent Examples on the WebSome people have made news for their tremendously bad and rude behavior in public spaces, which signals a kind of sad maladjustment to living with other people. Tess Taylor, CNN, 3 June 2021 The results showed once again that early academic acceleration did not predict later maladjustment. Susan Pinker, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020 Those include a dangerous maladjustment of mechanisms for maintaining international security and stability, regional crises, the creeping threat of terrorism and transnational crime. Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 16 July 2018 Waller-Bridge is concerned with a particularly feminine kind of maladjustment. Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018 But their maladjustment puts students under the immediate threat of gunfire and continues desensitizing them to injustice. Andre Perry, The Root, 9 May 2017
Word History
First Known Use
1833, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
maladjustment
noun
mal·ad·just·ment ˌmal-ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt
: poor, faulty, or inadequate adjustment
especially: failure to reach a satisfactory adjustment between one's desires and the conditions of one's life
emotional maladjustments
symptoms of maladjustment … in early childhood Psychological Abstracts