functioning
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3.1
- adjective
- /ˈfʌŋkʃənɪŋ/
:
funcional
- I have known Miss Kingsley as a conscious and functioning individual for a week.
- fully functioning
We have all sorts of corrupt, poorly functioning states.
- We have all sorts of corrupt, poorly functioning states.
- There is a lot of shame when a person doesn't have a healthy, functioning family system.
- Everything vanished, and touch became the only functioning sense.
- And that's he was a high functioning manic depressant, it seemed.
- By the way, I do think my Habeniola is very functioning very actively.
Examples
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The promise is real, and we do have functioning quantum computers already.
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Turns out that the device is just fine and functioning as it should.
Blog text (32) -
How hard is it to understand to treat everyone around you as a valuable and functioning human being?
Blog text (9) -
But the fact is, I was a functioning, competent mother.
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We exist to develop students into intellectual, functioning citizens and future workers.
Academic text (2008) -
Sometime I'll tell you what this place was like when it was still a functioning studio.
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He can be a perfectly functioning member of society.
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"It's a very smoothly functioning organization, thanks to my predecessor, Maxine Singer," says Meserve.
Academic text (2003) -
From my experience, boards that embrace these four guiding rules are well-functioning boards that lead well-functioning schools.
Academic text (2006) -
The coffeemaker was the most consistently functioning feature of the kitchen.
Synonyms
102
4.1
Working and ready to use, for example machines or systems
81
3.2
Working correctly so it can be used
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4.6
A machine or system that works and can be used
Able to be used and good enough for everyday tasks
Working or being used now
Antonyms
How Functional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Functioning comes from the same Latin root funct- meaning 'to perform' or 'to do'. That's why a functioning object is one that can do its job and is working properly.