'Maladjustment' definitions:
Definition of 'maladjustment'
From: WordNet
noun
The condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability
Definition of 'Maladjustment'
From: GCIDE
- Maladjustment \Mal`ad*just"ment\, n. [Mal- + adjustment.] A bad adjustment. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'maladjustment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- brain disease,
- crack-up,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional instability,
- functional nervous disorder,
- impropriety,
- inability,
- inadeptness,
- inadequacy,
- inadmissibility,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inattentiveness,
- incapability,
- incapacity,
- incompetence,
- incompetency,
- indexterity,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficiency,
- ineptness,
- infelicity,
- insanity,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- maladroitness,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- mediocrity,
- melancholia,
- mental disorder,
- mental illness,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- neurosis,
- paranoia,
- pedestrianism,
- personality disorder,
- problems in living,
- psychosis,
- reaction,
- rustiness,
- schizophrenia,
- skill-lessness,
- social maladjustment,
- thoughtlessness,
- unaptness,
- uncleverness,
- uncongeniality,
- undeftness,
- undexterousness,
- undextrousness,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unintelligence,
- unproficiency,
- unschooledness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsuitability,
- untrainedness