maladjustive

1. 1.

   poorly adjusted

   Similarmaladaptive

Questions about maladjustive

What does maladjustive mean?

maladjustive means "poorly adjusted".

How many syllables are in maladjustive?

maladjustive has 4 syllables and divides as ma-lad-ju-stive 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.

Is maladjustive a common word?

maladjustive 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.