Maladaptive refers to behaviors, thoughts, or emotions that are harmful, unhelpful, or counterproductive. Antonyms for maladaptive, which are terms that convey the opposite meaning, include adaptive, beneficial, constructive, and helpful. An adaptive behavior or thought pattern is one that is well-suited to a specific situation and promotes the individual's wellbeing. Beneficial implies that an action or thought is advantageous and promotes positive outcomes. Constructive refers to behaviors or thoughts that contribute to a positive development, growth, or progress. Overall, antonyms for maladaptive emphasize the importance of positive, constructive, and beneficial behavior patterns that foster adaptation, growth, and wellbeing.

What are the antonyms for Maladaptive?

• adj.

  • all
  • adaptive
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  • noun
  • accommodative
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  • adaptational
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  • adaptative
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  • adjustive
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  • reconciling
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  • unsuitably adapted
  • Adjusting
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  • flexible
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  • robust
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Famous quotes with Maladaptive

• As far as dreams were concerned—well dreams are generated by the random processes of neural oscillation during the brain’s rest phases. What dreams do is cycle and recycle images and feelings, rationalisations and fears. There’s nothing special about that. It’s not the that matter (chaff, mental turbulence, the rotating metal bars moving endlessly through the transparent tub of metaphorical slushy). It is what the problem-solving circuits in the mind of the dreams. Dreams iterate and test mental schemas, discarding the maladaptive to return the adaptive to the slush to be reworked. Dreams are emotional preparations for solving problems—that is why we have evolved them, because problem-solving abilities are adaptive and thus strongly evolutionarily selected. Dreams intoxicate the individual out of reliance on common sense and preconception, and tempt her into the orbit of private logic. Dreams have utility.

  Adam Roberts

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