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dysfunctional

dysfunctional adjective: not performing its proper or intended function.

Adjective

dysfunctional (comparative more dysfunctional, superlative most dysfunctional)

  1. Not performing its proper or intended function.
    Antonyms:
    operational
  2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
    • Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.
    • Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.

dysfunctional meaning in Tamil

dysfunctional in Tamil

செயலற்ற, செயலிழந்த, முடங்கிய, முடங்கிப்போன

Examples of dysfunctional in a sentence

  • My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives.
  • The increasingly dysfunctional socio-economic conditions exacerbated the increase in extreme healing practices and general religious conmanship.
  • As the coffee gooshes into a cup, I imagine that dysfunctional family dynamic.

All 15 example sentences with dysfunctional

Antonyms of dysfunctional

Forms of dysfunctional

comparativemore dysfunctional
superlativemost dysfunctional

Origin of dysfunctional

From dysfunction + -al.

Words formed from dysfunctional

Questions about dysfunctional

What does dysfunctional mean?
Dysfunctional means not performing its proper or intended function.
What is dysfunctional in Tamil?
Dysfunctional in Tamil is செயலற்ற, செயலிழந்த, முடங்கிய. See Dysfunctional meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dysfunctional?
Dysfunctional is an adjective.

Words near dysfunctional in the dictionary

  1. dysfluencies
  2. dysfluency
  3. dysfluent
  4. dysfluently
  5. dysfunction
  6. dysfunctional
  7. dysfunctionalism
  8. dysfunctionalities
  9. dysfunctionality
  10. dysfunctionalization
  11. dysfunctionally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dysfunctional (page history and authors); dysfunctional (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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