On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Dysfunctional. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as impaired or maladaptive and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Dysfunctional meaning
- Not performing its proper or intended function.
- Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
Synonyms of Dysfunctional
Using Dysfunctional
- The main meaning on this page is: Not performing its proper or intended function. | Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
- Useful related words include: impaired, nonadaptive, maladaptive.
- In the example corpus, dysfunctional often appears in combinations such as: and dysfunctional, dysfunctional family, the dysfunctional.
Context around Dysfunctional
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dysfunctional
- In this selection, "dysfunctional" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grimly, deeply, family, relationship and teams stand out and add context to how "dysfunctional" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a deeply dysfunctional system and and the dysfunctional state of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dysfunctional" sits close to words such as appreciates, bu and climates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dysfunctional
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Houston trying to join the “Dysfunctional Teams do Dysfunctional Things” club. (11 words)
Another calls it “dysfunctional” — and both are Republicans talking about their party! (12 words)
Another generational player’s career is being wasted by that dysfunctional, abysmal organization again. (14 words)
Bree Street remains defaced and dysfunctional weeks after the July 19 Joburg CBD explosion, with shop owners and informal traders bearing the brunt as they scrape for customers to put bread on the table. (34 words)
And with hard-right lawmakers empowered to derail spending bills or call for the speaker’s removal at any moment, some worried the chamber would be dysfunctional and paralyzed from the start. (32 words)
Based on a comic book series by Gerard Way, Netflix's show revolves around a group of dysfunctional former heroes who unenthusiastically reunite following the death of their adoptive father. (30 words)
Gulzar’s Parichay is a study of a dysfunctional family, but can we accept that ours is broken? (18 words)
Another calls it “dysfunctional” — and both are Republicans talking about their party! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Houston trying to join the “Dysfunctional Teams do Dysfunctional Things” club.
According to Etulan, as much as the country’s refineries are dysfunctional, the supply side will be affected as the country would rely mostly on imports.
And the U.S. is already among the most politically polarized and dysfunctional advanced democracies in the world.
And with hard-right lawmakers empowered to derail spending bills or call for the speaker’s removal at any moment, some worried the chamber would be dysfunctional and paralyzed from the start.
Another calls it “dysfunctional” — and both are Republicans talking about their party!
Another generational player’s career is being wasted by that dysfunctional, abysmal organization again.
As he celebrates his 65th birthday his dysfunctional family bicker, snipe and scheme, hoping to gain control of his empire.
As the investigation unfolds, a world of deceit, secrets and the dramas of dysfunctional families are revealed.
At the root of a dysfunctional health sector is also a malfunctioning ministry of health.
Attorneys and witnesses at the immunity hearing last month painted a picture of a dysfunctional relationship between Bryant and Ford that erupted into gun violence that August day.
Based on a comic book series by Gerard Way, Netflix's show revolves around a group of dysfunctional former heroes who unenthusiastically reunite following the death of their adoptive father.
Bree Street remains defaced and dysfunctional weeks after the July 19 Joburg CBD explosion, with shop owners and informal traders bearing the brunt as they scrape for customers to put bread on the table.
But it soon becomes clear that, with Hill House, she has traded one grimly dysfunctional relationship for a far more dangerous one.
But the 1999 referendum was over a status quo that was not fundamentally broken, while nobody denies that Indigenous disadvantage reveals a deeply dysfunctional system.
Centering on a dysfunctional but surprisingly loving family of aliens living in the US suburbs, is home to a host of wild science fiction adventures.
Drive down Pier Avenue and you can see the ugliest, most dysfunctional entrance and parking lot to a state park you will find anywhere in California.
Everything I have said about judicial appointments and the dysfunctional state of that process is also a result of the process being politicised.
Gulzar’s Parichay is a study of a dysfunctional family, but can we accept that ours is broken?
He has a thorn in the side of Washington, that executive agencies in the United States, like the DEA, are disorganized and dysfunctional.
How much better can that future be when after VAT, income tax and rates what’s left has to be spent on private services because the state services are dysfunctional.
Common combinations with dysfunctional
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and dysfunctional 19×
- dysfunctional family 18×
- the dysfunctional 12×
- of dysfunctional 12×
- dysfunctional and 11×
- dysfunctional families 6×
- as dysfunctional 6×
- this dysfunctional 6×
- dysfunctional relationship 5×
- dysfunctional state 5×