Etymograph

English

maladjustment

From mal- + adjustment.

A compound of mal- + adjustment

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

French ajustement ‘adjustment, adjusting, tweak’

English adjustment

Today it means

noun A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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