functional

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 34.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective In good working order.
2. adjective Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.

   That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.

3. adjective Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.

   A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements.

4. adjective Of or relating to one's role or office; official.

   functional responsibilities

5. adjective Characterizing functioning in environment, being symptoms that do not presuppose alteration of organic structure.
6. adjective Optimized for all-around physiological benefit.

   functional coffee

7. adjective Of or relating to a function or functions.
8. adjective Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

Similar words

useful functioning serviceable operative useable operable utilitarian operational usable working

Often followed by

and groups analysis form areas activity group requirements significance

Word family

function functionalities functionality functionally functioned functioning functions