What does maladaptive mean?

maladaptive means "showing faulty adaptation".

How many syllables are in maladaptive?

maladaptive has 4 syllables and divides as ma-la-dap-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of maladaptive?

The recorded antonyms are adaptive.

Is maladaptive a common word?

maladaptive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Maladaptive — meaning and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
showing faulty adaptation
Antonymsadaptive
Similardysfunctional maladjustive

Questions about maladaptive

What does maladaptive mean?: maladaptive means "showing faulty adaptation".
How many syllables are in maladaptive?: maladaptive has 4 syllables and divides as ma-la-dap-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.
What is the opposite of maladaptive?

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