dysfunctional

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not performing its proper or intended function.
  2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
    — Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.

词形变化

more dysfunctional comparative most dysfunctional superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dews-?
Proto-Indo-European *dus-
Proto-Hellenic *dus-
Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der.
New Latin dys-der.
English dys-
Old French fonction
Middle French functionbor.
English function
English dysfunction
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.

Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.

Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dysfunctional
From dysfunction + -al.
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