Meaning

2 senses

  1. Functional, working.

  2. (euphemistic)Of a person, mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.

    Oh, he looked pretty functioning to me.

More definitions
  • performing or able to perform its regular function

Forms

more functioning, most functioning
Comparativemore functioning Lesson
Superlativemost functioning Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
functional:usefulA2

Antonyms

1 antonyms
malfunctioning

Word family

5 related words
Derivedfunctioning timehigh-functioninglow-functioning autismnonfunctioningsubfunctioning

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
functionalB2functionalityB2functionaryfundB1fundamentalB2
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