MALADJUSTED

maladjusted

(adjective) not well adjusted; “a maladjusted carburetor”

maladjusted

(adjective) poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living; “a maladjusted child”

disturbed, maladjusted

(adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

maladjusted (comparative more maladjusted, superlative most maladjusted)

Badly adjusted to the demands and stresses of daily living; unable to cope.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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