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dysfunctional
English
Etymology
From dysfunction +? -al.
Adjective
dysfunctional (comparative more dysfunctional, superlative most dysfunctional)
- Not performing its proper or intended function.
- Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
Usage notes
Used frequently in regard to social and organizational functioning: "dysfunctional quality assurance", dysfunctional family, dysfunctional behavior.
Antonyms
- eufunctional
- functional
Derived terms
- dysfunctionality
- dysfunctionalization
- dysfunctionally
Related terms
- dysfunction (noun)
Translations
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functional
English
Etymology
function +? -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??k(t)??n?l/, /?f??k(t)?n?l/
Adjective
functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)
- In good working order.
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements
- (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Antonym: imperative
- (medicine) Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
Synonyms
- functioning, working
- utilitarian
Antonyms
- dysfunctional
- non-functional, nonfunctional, unfunctional
- (medicine: not referrable to a change of structure): organic
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
functional (plural functionals)
- (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
- (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
Derived terms
- functional analysis
- functional analysis diagram
- linear functional
Translations
References
- functional on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- functional in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- functional in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- functional at OneLook Dictionary Search
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