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functional

designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture"

involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness"

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"

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"

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:

• 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