Functioning Synonyms and Antonyms

The way in which a machine or other thing performs or functions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. operation
  2. performance
  3. behavior
  4. reaction
  5. working
In action or full operation
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. active
  2. alive
  3. going
  4. operating
  5. operative
  6. running
  7. working
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. officiating
  2. serving
  3. acting
Perform as expected when applied
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. working
  2. running
  3. operating
  4. taking
  5. going
Antonyms:
  1. malfunctioning
  2. idling
Performing or able to perform its regular function
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. malfunctioning

Words Related to Functioning

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.

Functioning Sentence Examples

  • It's what keeps the hospital functioning, so we can treat everyone who comes this way.

  • For proper functioning of the system the building has to be sufficiently airtight.

  • Carbohydrates are the main energy source for muscle functioning.

  • The whole functioning of our mental apparatus is directed upon yielding the right response to the stimulations of the environment, and is valuable if and in so far as it does this.

  • Even when the notion of " good performance of function " was thus widened, and when it had further taken in the pleasure that is inseparably connected with such functioning, it did not yet correspond to the whole of what a Greek commonly understood as " human well-being."

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