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adjusted, ppl. a.|əˈdʒʌstɪd|
[f. adjust + -ed.]
1. Arranged, composed, harmonized, settled.
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. i. 14 All the overtures they had made being adjusted. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 13 ⁋13 Promises of friendship are useless and vain, unless they are made in some known sense, adjusted and acknowledged by both parties. 1811L. M. Hawkins Countess & Gertr. I. 243 A species of thrift, which by an adjusted balance of caprice and parsimony, saved nothing in the event.
2. Disposed or arranged so as to fit or answer (to something); adapted.
1777Hume Ess. & Treat. I. 109 It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense.
3. Properly ordered or regulated.
1675Ogilby Brit. Pref. 4 This, if accurately adjusted..would conduce..to the Regulation of Latitudes. 1865Mozley Miracles viii. 175 Who could stand firm, and maintain a moderate and adjusted ground against the strong tendencies to extravagance.
4. Adapted to one's environment (often preceded by defining word, as well adjusted). Cf. adjustment 1.
1924J. J. B. Morgan Psychol. of Unadjusted School Child i. i. 4 It is the function of the parent and teacher to encourage the successfully adjusted children. 1940R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) xviii. 590 If an individual is participating intelligently and wholeheartedly in what is going on in his environment, we have no hesitation in calling him well adjusted. 1957D. Karp Leave me Alone vi. 97 Don't talk to me about being ‘adjusted’. |