DYSFUNCTIONAL


Meaning of DYSFUNCTIONAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

family

They say poor judgments by overburdened and undertrained caseworkers have reunited some irrevocably dysfunctional families .

They came from Williams' dysfunctional family , his tortured psyche and his repressed homosexuality.

So I have come reluctantly to the conclusion that my Palm is a high-functioning offspring in a dysfunctional family .

A.. Have you ever been around a dysfunctional family ?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a dysfunctional family

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Beyond historically determined levels of societal tolerance, crime is dysfunctional to social life.

He notes the following dysfunctional possibilities.

Lousy schools and dysfunctional teachers were let off the hook.

The dysfunctional protein builds up in the brain and death results.

The modification of dysfunctional attitudes is a key concern in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy.

The second phase is more cognitive, aimed at the identification and modification of the dysfunctional silent assumptions.

They came from Williams' dysfunctional family, his tortured psyche and his repressed homosexuality.

They say poor judgments by overburdened and undertrained caseworkers have reunited some irrevocably dysfunctional families.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.