1. When something does not function properly.
2. When something is dangerous, bad, unhealthy, toxic, etc.
Do you know Stephanie and Kevin?
They have such a dysfunctional relationship!
Not operating normally or properly or unable to deal adequately with normal social relations.
You're a dysfunctional little fuck. One phone call could get you onto Ricki Lake.
One phone call, you and you're fucked up family. Ricki would get 10 episodes out of you!
A person who is so addicted to alcohol, that they require alcohol in order to perform simple day to day tasks. This is different from a functional alcoholic, which is someone who can function without drinking and is merely an insufferable fuckwad when they haven't had a drink in a while.
Did you hear about Dave? He's turned into a dysfunctional alcoholic and his house is being reposessed.
The inability to burp or belch.
Tom: I feel like I need to burp and just can't.
Craig: I think you might be suffering from eructile dysfunction.
When a pair of bros are offered a threesome but can't get a boner.
John and Alex got brorectile dysfunction when Jenny asked them to come to bed due to a previous threesome.
When someone suffers from confusion about a presidential candidate's qualifications and can't get up to make a decision and vote.
I can see why this 2020 presidential election most people are suffering from "electile dysfunction."
Dysfunctional (so-called) 'Representative Democracy' by Election, widespread in most countries.
It'll take the Tauranga more than a year to recover from its Electile Dysfunction of June 2022