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Maladaptive meaning

  1. Of behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
  2. Of anatomy, physiology, or behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.

Synonyms of Maladaptive

dysfunctional nonadaptive maladjustive adaptive

Related words

Other words often associated with Maladaptive or its synonyms:

accommodative impaired adaptational reconciling

Using Maladaptive

  • The main meaning on this page is: Of behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation. | Of anatomy, physiology, or behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.
  • Useful related words include: dysfunctional, nonadaptive, maladjustive, adaptive.
  • In the example corpus, maladaptive often appears in combinations such as: with maladaptive, maladaptive way, of maladaptive.

Context around Maladaptive

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 18.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

contrast 1× severely 1× replace 1× appear 1×

Often after:

way 2× instincts 1× patterns 1× escapism 1× humour 1× thought 1× outcomes 1× parental 1× depends 1×

Sentence patterns with Maladaptive

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

associated with maladaptive outcomes 1× aware of maladaptive thought patterns 1× be severely maladaptive 1× discover other maladaptive patterns 1× harmful or maladaptive depends on 1× in a maladaptive way through 1× in contrast maladaptive humour types 1× individuals replace maladaptive 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

escapism that seeks 1× in contrast maladaptive 1× in general this 1× indeed cognitive behavioral 1× it also appears 1× kin selection was 1×

Common sentence endings:

anxiety and depression 1× be severely maladaptive 1× called maladaptive escapism 1× dealing with stress 1× individuals replace maladaptive 1× maladaptive are culled 1×

Words around Maladaptive

Just before it in the word index:

maladapted 3 malada 2 malad 22 malacia 14 malachy 21 malachuk 2

Just after it in the word index:

maladie 2 maladies 34 maladjusted 7 maladjustment 2 maladministration 41 maladroit 11

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Maladaptive

  • In this selection, "maladaptive" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, contrast, severely, replace, way, instincts and patterns stand out and add context to how "maladaptive" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include associated with maladaptive outcomes and aware of maladaptive thought patterns. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "maladaptive" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with maladaptive

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Mainstream CBT helps individuals replace "maladaptive.. (6 words)

The change in the brain’s structure is maladaptive. (9 words)

In general, this style of parenting is associated with maladaptive outcomes. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

Thus, we see more and more people—“” in Woodley of Menie’s words—with maladaptive instincts such as xenophilia, anti-ethnocentrism and anti-natalism, and these people influence even non-carriers to behave in a maladaptive way through means of persuasion. (41 words)

To Balkin, whether memes become harmful or maladaptive depends on the environmental context in which they exist rather than in any special source or manner to their origination. (28 words)

Indeed, cognitive-behavioral therapists counsel their clients to become aware of maladaptive thought patterns, the nature of which the clients previously had not been conscious. (25 words)

Example sentences (14)

Thus, we see more and more people—“” in Woodley of Menie’s words—with maladaptive instincts such as xenophilia, anti-ethnocentrism and anti-natalism, and these people influence even non-carriers to behave in a maladaptive way through means of persuasion.

But as we unravel more of Ashleigh’s trauma, we discover other maladaptive patterns.

Escapism that seeks out positive experiences is called adaptive, while escapism that avoids negative experiences is called maladaptive escapism.

The change in the brain’s structure is maladaptive.

There is not a human that walks this earth who doesn’t have some kind of maladaptive way of dealing with stress.

In contrast, maladaptive humour types (aggressive and self-defeating) are associated with poorer overall psychological wellbeing, emphasis on higher levels of anxiety and depression.

Indeed, cognitive-behavioral therapists counsel their clients to become aware of maladaptive thought patterns, the nature of which the clients previously had not been conscious.

In general, this style of parenting is associated with maladaptive outcomes.

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It also appears that the structure of histones has been evolutionarily conserved, as any deleterious mutations would be severely maladaptive.

It has been shown that maladaptive parental behavior has an important role in the development of eating disorders.

Kin selection was originally developed to explain apparent altruistic acts which seemed to be maladaptive.

Mainstream CBT helps individuals replace "maladaptive..

Those that appear adaptive are retained, while those that appear maladaptive are culled.

To Balkin, whether memes become harmful or maladaptive depends on the environmental context in which they exist rather than in any special source or manner to their origination.

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Common combinations with maladaptive

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "maladaptive" in a sentence?
An example: "Thus, we see more and more people—“” in Woodley of Menie’s words—with maladaptive instincts such as xenophilia, anti-ethnocentrism and anti-natalism, and these people influence even non-carriers to behave in a maladaptive way through means of persuasion." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "maladaptive" from authentic English texts.
What does "maladaptive" mean?
Maladaptive means: Of behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
What are synonyms of "maladaptive"?
Common synonyms of "maladaptive" include: dysfunctional, nonadaptive, maladjustive, adaptive.
How many example sentences with "maladaptive" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "maladaptive", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.