Home › Words › M › misadjustmisadjustmisadjust means to adjust wrongly or unsuitably.EtymologyFrom mis- + adjust.verbTo adjust wrongly or unsuitably.e.g.“following the daily routine of Scripture lessons in the track of the misadjusted order” — 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.maladjusted 78% match — Adjusted badly or wrongly. vs misadjust →disadjust 75% match — to undo an adjustment. vs misadjust →overadjust 74% match — To adjust excessively or too precisely. vs misadjust →maladjustment 74% match — A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism. vs misadjust →misset 69% match — To set, adjust or calibrate incorrectly. vs misadjust →maladjustive 66% match — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment. vs misadjust →overadjusted 66% match — Having been adjusted too much. vs misadjust →miscompensate 66% match — To err when attempting to adapt to a condition. vs misadjust →