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 notaltered to fit new or changed data or circumstances
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not altered to fit certain requirements
- adjective not having adapted to new conditions
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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However, the Department of Homeland Security's practice of jailing "unadjusted" refugees after a year is indefensible.
RaceWire 2009
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America's mental health problems may be more than a matter of some "unadjusted" individuals.
Signs of the Times 2008
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America's mental health problems may be more than a matter of some "unadjusted" individuals.
Signs of the Times 2008
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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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