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functioning

adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue

functional, working

adjective

  1. 1

    functional, working

    The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.

  2. 2

    Of a person, mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.

    Oh, he looked pretty functioning to me.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of functionpresent participle and gerund of function

noun

  1. 1

    Action of the verb function.

  2. 2

    Manner by which something functions; the workings.

Forms

plural
functionings
comparative
more functioning
superlative
most functioning
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).