Functional Synonyms and Antonyms

fŭngkshə-nəl
Serving or capable of serving a useful purpose
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. practical
  2. operative
  3. useful
  4. working
  5. utilitarian
  6. handy
  7. practicable
  8. running
  9. usable
  10. serviceable
  11. useable
  12. utile
  13. manipulational
  14. neuropsychiatric
  15. operable
  16. psychobiological
  17. psychodynamic
  18. psychogenic
  19. operational
  20. psychoneurological
  21. psychopathological
  22. psychophysical
  23. psychophysiological
  24. psychosexual
  25. psychosocial
Antonyms:
  1. malfunctioning
  2. nonfunctional
  3. unfunctional
  4. broken
  5. idle
Designed for or capable of a particular function or use
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. organic
  2. nonfunctional

Words Related to Functional

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Functional Sentence Examples

  • The first step consists in the functional treatment of equations.

  • For me everything is functional, but you have style.

  • That's not the way a functional relationship works, she said, anger building.

  • The bodywall is greatly simplified in the Gymnolaemata, in correlation with the functional importance of the skeletal part of the wall.

  • There are four functional toes in front and three behind; while the calcaneum, unlike that of the other three groups, articulates with the fibula.

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