From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Maladjustment \Mal'ad*just"ment\, noun [Mal- + adjustment.] A bad adjustment.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "maladjustment": abnormality, anomaly, brain disease, crack-up, emotional disorder, emotional instability, functional nervous disorder, impropriety, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, infelicity, insanity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladroitness, manic-depressive psychosis, mediocrity, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, paranoia, pedestrianism, personality disorder, problems in living, psychosis, reaction, rustiness, schizophrenia, skill-lessness, social maladjustment, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, uncongeniality, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, untrainedness
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