About The Word Functional
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Functional
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What's The Definition Of Functional?
[adj] designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture"
[adj] (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [adj] (pathology) involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness" [adj] designed for or adapted to a function or use; "functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical"; "functional architecture" [adj] fit or ready for use or service; "the toaster was still functional even after being dropped"; "the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable"; "an operational aircraft"; "the dishwasher is now in working order" [adj] relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure; "the problem now is not a constitutional one; it is a functional one"; "delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis" Synonyms | Synonyms for Functional: functioning | in working order(p) | operable | operational | operative | practical | running(a) | structural | usable | useable | useful | utilitarian | working(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Functional: acting | active | adjectival | advantageous | adverbial | agential | agentival | agentive | appropriate | at work | attributive | banausic | behavioral | beneficial | commodious | conjunctive | copulative | correct | effective | effectual | efficacious | efficient | employable | essential | expedient | fitting | formal | functioning | glossematic | go | going | going on | good for | grammatic | handy | helpful | important | in exercise | in force | in hand | in operation | in play | in practice | in process | in the works | inaction | industrial | intransitive | linking | managerial | manipulational | neuropsychiatric | nominal | of general utility | of help | of service | of use | official | on foot | on the fire | ongoing | operating | operational | operative | participial | performing | postpositional | practicable | practical | practicing | pragmatical | prepositional | pro | professional | pronominal | proper | psychiatric | psychobiological | psychodynamic | psychogenic | psychological | psychoneurological | psychopathic | psychopathological | psychophysical | psychophysiological | psychosexual | psychosocial | psychosomatic | psychotic | running | serviceable | serving | structural | substantive | syntactic | tagmemic | technical | transitive | useful | utilitarian | verbal | vocational | working See Also | serviceable Functional In Webster's Dictionary \Func"tion*al\, a.
1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty;
official.
2. (Physiol.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part,
or to the functions in general.
{Functional disease} (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms
cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of
structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a
cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to
organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
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