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The synonyms of “Dysfunctional” are: nonadaptive, troubled, distressed, unsettled, upset, distraught
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dysfunctional” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| distraught | Very worried and upset. Distraught parents looking for a runaway teenager. |
| distressed | Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief. Women in distressed circumstances. |
| nonadaptive | Failing to serve an adjustive purpose. |
| troubled | Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need. These troubled areas. |
| unsettled | Not settled or established. An unsettled childhood. |
| upset | Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion. The Bills upset victory over the Houston Oilers. |
| accident | An incidence of incontinence by a child or animal. He had a little accident but I washed his shorts out. |
| afflicted | Grievously affected especially by disease. |
| anarchy | A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government. He must ensure public order in a country threatened with anarchy. |
| casualty | A decrease of military personnel or equipment. The Insurers acquire all the Policyholder s rights in respect of the casualty which caused the loss. |
| chaotic | Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing. The political situation was chaotic. |
| damaged | Harmed or injured or spoiled. I won t buy damaged goods. |
| deform | Become distorted or misshapen undergo deformation. The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake. |
| diminished | Of an organ or body part diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use. A diminished role for local government. |
| disorderly | Lacking organization; untidy. Disorderly conduct. |
| disorganized | Unable to plan one’s activities efficiently. A thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose. |
| eddy | A circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool. An eddy of chill air swirled into the carriage. |
| eviscerate | Having been disembowelled. Eviscerate the stomach. |
| impaired | Mentally or physically unfit. Sight impaired children. |
| injured | Harmed. A road accident left him severely injured. |
| irreversibly | In an irreversible manner. Our landscape will be irreversibly damaged. |
| lacerate | Cut or tear irregularly. The point had lacerated his neck. |
| machine | Turn shape mold or otherwise finish by machinery. The party s fund raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine. |
| maelstrom | A powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river. The train station was a maelstrom of crowds. |
| painfully | Unpleasantly. Progress was painfully slow. |
| purl | Knit with a purl stitch. The water was purling. |
| rehabilitate | Help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute. Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime. |
| roil | Be agitated. The sea roiled below her. |
| scarred | Blemished by injury or rough wear. A face scarred by anxiety. |
| swirl | Turn in a twisting or spinning motion. The smoke was swirling around him. |
| tornado | A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground. Teenagers caught up in a tornado of sexual confusion. |
| transformed | Given a completely different form or appearance. Shocked to see the transformed landscape. |
| tumultuous | Excited, confused, or disorderly. A tumultuous crowd. |
| vortex | The shape of something rotating rapidly. A swirling vortex of emotions. |
| whirlpool | Flow in a circular current, of liquids. He was drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool. |
| wounded | People who are wounded. A wounded soldier. |
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