functioning

Speech parts

1. functioning - Noun

2. functioning - Adjective

3. functioning - Verb

Meaning

process or manner of functioning or operating

performing or able to perform its regular function

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

performance operation useful work function service working living live movement action active operating activity running

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Antonyms

malfunctioning bung down goner shot dead

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Hypernyms

process physical process

Phrases with the word

cognitive functioning not functioning intellectual functioning functioning properly functioning as effective functioning

Examples

A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway

The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism. Benjamin Graham

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy. Jimmy Carter

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. Karl Jaspers

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. Sarah Dessen

Close letter words and terms

functionary functionate functionhood functioning as functioning automatically functioning of a group of organisms