dysfunctional

Preposition: in

• way: This is a failed state which is dysfunctional in many ways.
• obesity: Our group therefore aims to elucidate peripheral and central mechanisms of energy balance and how these become dysfunctional in obesity.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: What makes a family dysfunctional, or a child antisocial?

Modifies a noun

• bleeding: Out of 51 patients with dysfunctional uterine bleeding, 18 were included for uterine balloon therapy under local anesthesia.
• spleen: Conclusion Infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen remains largely preventable.
• family: I write about dysfunctional families, war, refugees, farm life, the future.
• relationship: I have always had a very dysfunctional relationship with chocolate in particular.
• quot: At the conclusion dysfunctional quot turns about two years.
• behavior: These cultures experience little or no dysfunctional behavior in their young people.

Modifying Another Word

• socially: We need far earlier intervention with some of these families, who are often socially excluded and socially dysfunctional.
• severely: Most English teachers would deny that this offers anything other than a severely dysfunctional literacy.
• increasingly: Glen said he intends to set pulses racing in the increasingly dysfunctional Big Brother house with his handsome good looks.
• seriously: Nanny appears to need treatment herself for seriously dysfunctional behavior.
• totally: At its best, Interpol have become The Strokes, but at its worst it sounds totally dysfunctional and confusing on the ear.
• highly: This is a common cycle in highly dysfunctional families.

Used with adjective complement

• become: This affects the health of the organs or cells, which then become dysfunctional, degenerate or diseased.
• seem: The craftsman is likely to seem dysfunctional in a culture of innovation and change.