Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not having been adjusted to conform to new data or information.
  • adjective Not having adapted to new conditions.
  • adjective Needing to be made operable or accurate by adjusting or regulating.

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  • adjective Not adjusted, especially not altered to fit new or changed data or circumstances

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  • adjective not altered to fit certain requirements
  • adjective not having adapted to new conditions

Etymologies

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un- +‎ adjusted

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Examples

  • In September, the Federal Labor Office had recorded 3.031 million jobless in unadjusted terms, and 3.188 million in seasonally-adjusted terms.

    German Inflation Remains Subdued Geoffrey T. Smith 2010

  • However, the Department of Homeland Security's practice of jailing "unadjusted" refugees after a year is indefensible.

    The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Quiet Raids, Slippery ICE and Grinches 2009

  • He argued that conscious anti-Semites, especially "the 'unadjusted' veterans," would identify unconsciously with the GIs: "just demobilized, ordinary, white native Protestant, 'our kind, '— a band of comrades with battle records, plagued by the unhappinesses and insecurities of that new, troubling No Man's Land between war and postwar."

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Since we cannot completely live these tendencies down, we are all more or less "unadjusted" and ill adapted.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • All county and metro figures are unadjusted, meaning that they don't factor seasonal fluctuations, such as the start of school or winter slowdown of construction.

    JSOnline.com 2009

  • All county and metro figures are unadjusted, meaning that they don't factor seasonal fluctuations, such as the start of school or winter slowdown of construction.

    JSOnline.com 2009

  • However, the Department of Homeland Security's practice of jailing "unadjusted" refugees after a year is indefensible.

    RaceWire 2009

  • America's mental health problems may be more than a matter of some "unadjusted" individuals.

    Signs of the Times 2008

  • America's mental health problems may be more than a matter of some "unadjusted" individuals.

    Signs of the Times 2008

  • They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself. "

    Bruce E. Levine: Thinking Critically About Scientology, Psychiatry, and Their Feud 2008

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