'Functional' definitions:
Definition of 'functional'
From: WordNet
adjective
Designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture" [ant: nonfunctional]
adjective
Involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness" [ant: organic]
adjective
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"
adjective
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" [syn: functional, usable, useable, operable, operational]
adjective
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"
adjective
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)]
Definition of 'Functional'
From: GCIDE
- Functional \Func"tion*al\ (f[u^][ng]k"sh[u^]n*al), a.
- 1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Pathology, Physiol.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general; involving or affecting function rather than physiology; as, functional deafness; a functional disease. See {functional disease}, below. [WordNet sense 2] [1913 Webster]
- 3. Designed for or capable of a particular function or use; as, a style of writing in which every word is functional; functional architecture. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.6]
- 4. Fit or ready for use or service; useable; in working order; as, the toaster was still functional even after being dropped; the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still functional. Antonym of out of order and nonfunctional. [WordNet sense 4 & 6]
- Syn: usable, useable, in working order(predicate), operable, operational, running(prenominal), operative. [WordNet 1.6]
- 5. Designed to emphasize practical utility rather than artistic or aesthetic purposes; as, functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical; functional architecture; an amateurish device, crude but functional. [WordNet 1.6]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'functional'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Functional'
- Function,
- Functionalize,
- Functionally,
- Functionate,
- functionalism,
- functionality,
- functioning,
- Algebraic function,
- Arbitrary function,
- Calculus of functions,
- Carnot's function,
- Circular functions,
- Discontinuous function,
- Elliptic function,
- Elliptic functions,
- Explicit function,
- Functional disease,
- Hyperbolic functions,
- Implicit function,
- Increasing function,
- Periodic function,
- Sustentative functions,
- Thermodynamic function,
- Theta function,
- Transcendental function,
- Transcendental functions,
- Trigonometrical function,
- Vital functions,
- bodily function,
- characterisic function,
- circular function,
- control function,
- derived function,
- domain of a function,
- exponential function,
- force function,
- function call,
- function word,
- functional anatomy,
- functional calculus,
- functional disorder,
- functional genomics,
- functional illiterate,
- functionally illiterate,
- inverse function,
- localisation of function,
- localization of function,
- mathematical function,
- metric function,
- potential function,
- range of a function,
- sentential function,
- social function,
- threshold function,
- trigonometric function,
- Inverse trigonometrical functions,
- monotonically increasing function,
- One-valued function,
- functional magnetic resonance imaging,
- single-valued function,
- blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging