functionaladjective
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/functional adjective (USEFUL)
B2 designed to be practical and useful rather than attractive:
functional clothing
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Useful or advantageous
- a pearl of great price idiom
- a place in the sun idiom
- advantageous
- all-singing
- amiss
- expedient
- favourable
- fodder
- foil
- fruitful
- fruitfulness
- functionally
- palliative
- productive
- profitable
- repay
- repay sb's effort, time, attention, etc. idiom
- respite
- salutary
- sniff
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functional adjective (WORKING NORMALLY)
(of a machine, system, etc.) working in the usual way:
Is the central heating functional yet?
performing a particular operation:
a functional disorder (= when an organ does not work as it should)
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Machines - Functioning
- asthmatically
- faulty
- fire sth up
- function as sth/sb
- functionally
- operation
- operational
- operative
- order
- pack
- pack up
- peg
- perform
- play up
- right
- roll
- start
- start (sth) up
- torpor
- work
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Suitable and acceptable
functional adjective (LANGUAGE)
specialized language relating to language functions, for example saying sorry, asking for something, or refusing something:
The course will teach participants functional language.
Spanish functional phrases being taught to the police include "Calm down", "Speak Slower" and "You're under arrest".