Adjective: dysfunctional
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dysfunctional |
| Superlative | most dysfunctional |
Sample Sentences
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Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.
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Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.
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A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”. [2023 October 22, Ruth Michaelson, “Netanyahu told to ‘quit now’ as ex-leaders pin blame on dysfunctional government”, in The Observer, →ISSN:]
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It is difficult to find the right words for what has happened in the five years since the May 2018 timetable changes exposed the very dysfunctional nature of the franchise system set up by the privatisation process of the 1990s. [2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34:]
Adjectives inflected like dysfunctional
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dews-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *dus-
4. Proto-Hellenic *dus-
5. Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der.
6. New Latin dys-der.
7. English dys-
8. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der.
9. Proto-Italic *fungōr
10. Latin fungor
11. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
12. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
13. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
14. Proto-Italic *-tiō
15. Latin -tiō
16. Latin fūnctiō
17. Old French fonction
18. Middle French functionbor.
19. English function
20. English dysfunction
21. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
22. Proto-Indo-European *-is
23. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
24. Proto-Italic *-ālis
25. Latin -ālisbor.
26. Old French -albor.
27. ▲
28. Latin -ālis
29. Old French -elbor.
30. ▲
31. Latin -ālisbor.
32. Middle English -al
33. English -al
34. English dysfunctional
35. From dysfunction + -al.
Verbs referencing "dysfunctional"
Finnish Adjectives
dysfunktionaalinen.