Usually means: Not operating normally or healthily.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word dysfunctional:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dysfunctional: Merriam-Webster
  2. dysfunctional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dysfunctional: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dysfunctional: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dysfunctional, dysfunctional: Wordnik
  6. dysfunctional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dysfunctional: Wiktionary
  8. dysfunctional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dysfunctional: Dictionary.com
  10. dysfunctional: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. dysfunctional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Dysfunctional (Dokken album), Dysfunctional (disambiguation), Dysfunctional: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dysfunctional: Rhymezone
  14. dysfunctional: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dysfunctional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dysfunctional: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dysfunctional: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dysfunctional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dysfunctional: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dysfunctional: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dysfunctional: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dysfunction as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not performing its proper or intended function.
adjective:  Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

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