functionally

Adverb

Meaning

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

function career functional efficiently practically appropriately dynamically linearly surgically usefully anatomically constructively beneficially pragmatically operatively
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Antonyms

geometrically organically ineffectively futilely dismally incompetently
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Phrases with the word

functionally blind

Examples

The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog. Grady Booch

The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. Robert K. Merton

I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things. Ken Thompson

They depend on which actual path of intermediation it may functionally strike into: the word "or" names a genuine reality. William James

For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country. Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate. John Medina

Close letter words and terms

functionalizable functionalization functionalize functionally complete functionally illiterate functionary