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Definition of Misadjust
1. v. t. To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment.
Definition of Misadjust
1. Verb. (transitive) To adjust wrongly or unsuitably. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misadjust
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misadjust
Literary usage of Misadjust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"and yet in its breeding activities needs only relatively few males, a condition
which when viewed as a whole seems to be a misadjust- ment rather than a ..."
2. The Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy by Harriott Ely Fansler (1914)
"Philosophically, fall means misadjust- ment. Technically, it means both reverse
of success and misadjustment, or the resolution of deed into thought—the ..."
3. Character of Renaissance Architecture by Charles Herbert Moore (1905)
"To distort and misadjust them, as the architects of the Renaissance did, is not
to adapt them. There was no true adaptation of classic elements in ..."
4. Royal Truths by Henry Ward Beecher (1866)
"But how dreadful, compared with the misadjust- ment of these men, is that of
those who, having striven to make themselves something in this life, ..."
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