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What is "well-adjusted"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-adjusted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clones of identical fungi are passed down from parent colony to offspring, reducing the chance of conflict in a well-adjusted system.
▪ For the first five months of his life, Christopher was happy, well-adjusted and a trifle fat.
▪ Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted, wholesome architects of pop's fatal new maturity?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
well-adjusted

1735, in reference to mechanisms, etc., from well (adv.) + past participle of adjust (v.). In reference to emotional balance, recorded from 1959.

Wiktionary
well-adjusted

a. 1 (context of a person English) Suitably adapted to new conditions. 2 (context psychology English) Free from any psychological disorder.

WordNet
well-adjusted

adj. free from psychological disorder; "a well-adjusted personality" [syn: well-balanced]

Usage examples of "well-adjusted".

I tried to act like a happy healthy well-adjusted human, who likes playing secret agents in an unheated Scottish castle, but who occasionally needs a nice long walk.

Many otherwise well-adjusted citizens of a complex, civilized galaxy were revolted or superstitiously terrified at the thought of a human being entombed in a bulkhead, connected to the operational circuitry of a powerful space ship.