Definition for Functioning:

• process or manner of functioning or operating; " the power of its engine determine its operation"; " the plane's operation in high winds"; " they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; " the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

Synonyms for Functioning:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • deputy,
  • performing,
  • acting,
  • practicing,
  • surrogate,
  • temporary,
  • alternate,
  • pro tem,
  • operating.
  •active (adjective)
  • operational,
  • useful,
  • functional,
  • at work,
  • in play,
  • in process,
  • going,
  • in force,
  • operative.

• n.

  •
  • behavior,
  • reaction.
  •action (noun)
  • Movements,
  • in work,
  • motion,
  • in the works.
  •functioning (noun)
  • operation,
  • up.

• v.

  •acting (verb)
  • exercising,
  • officiating,
  • Doing,
  • Endeavoring,
  • appearing,
  • reacting,
  • conducting,
  • Behaving,
  • executing,
  • moving,
  • Transacting,
  • Comporting,
  • laboring,
  • Perpetrating.
  •applying (verb)
  • using,
  • Utilizing,
  • Effecting,
  • Exerting,
  • Applying,
  • implementing,
  • Employing,
  • serving.
  •working (verb)
  • toiling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • directed.
  •
  • running.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dynamic,
  • licking,
  • unravelling,
  • Manoeuvring,
  • tending,
  • Bunking,
  • driving,
  • Operancy,
  • accomplishment,
  • direction,
  • parting,
  • surgery,
  • inaction,
  • blending,
  • practice,
  • handling,
  • effectual,
  • flowing,
  • advancing,
  • Extending,
  • fulfillment,
  • swing,
  • locking,
  • implementation,
  • on,
  • Assisting,
  • activism,
  • enduring,
  • bring into play,
  • engaging,
  • unraveling,
  • in progress,
  • powering,
  • statute,
  • processing,
  • utility,
  • employment,
  • effect,
  • extant,
  • solving,
  • lasting,
  • effective,
  • Piecing,
  • Portioning,
  • service,
  • persisting,
  • behaviour,
  • in hand,
  • serviceability,
  • spotting,
  • busy,
  • actioning,
  • Forcing,
  • responsibility,
  • play,
  • operations,
  • sectioning,
  • laddering,
  • in operation,
  • workable,
  • Kneading,
  • attending,
  • partying,
  • structure,
  • forging,
  • Dishing,
  • rifling,
  • usable,
  • process,
  • living,
  • practical,
  • Purposing,
  • method,
  • ongoing,
  • Sufficing,
  • voicing,
  • sharing,
  • biting,
  • surgical process,
  • carrying into action,
  • happening,
  • in practice,
  • answering,
  • exiting,
  • souring,
  • Progressing,
  • powerful,
  • mathematical process,
  • steering,
  • discharge,
  • sounding,
  • meshing,
  • energetic,
  • practicable,
  • achievement,
  • targeting,
  • controlling,
  • eventing,
  • serviceable,
  • potent,
  • execution,
  • Escaping,
  • Functionless,
  • management,
  • usability,
  • usage,
  • exploiting,
  • vigorous,
  • started,
  • inclining,
  • Forming,
  • practises,
  • use,
  • in effect,
  • lively,
  • surgical procedure,
  • valid,
  • plumping,
  • guiding,
  • public presentation,
  • dying,
  • racing,
  • on the move,
  • cognitive operation,
  • Begun,
  • Tasking,
  • movement,
  • Jobbing,
  • proceeding,
  • carrying out,
  • actual,
  • operable,
  • function,
  • Cropping,
  • Perishing,
  • mathematical operation,
  • hunting,
  • business,
  • utilization,
  • in action,
  • designing,
  • agency,
  • makeup,
  • efficacious,
  • Objecting,
  • failing,
  • commissioning,
  • servicing,
  • composition,
  • manipulation,
  • prevailing,
  • fermenting,
  • Carrying,
  • influential,
  • positioning,
  • deed,
  • cognitive process,
  • Aiming,
  • way,
  • behavioral,
  • starting,
  • labouring,
  • activity,
  • expiring,
  • Lamming,
  • Cultivating,
  • observance,
  • campaigning,
  • departing,
  • occupation,
  • on foot,
  • coursing,
  • in use,
  • Consorting,
  • conduct,
  • Laming,
  • Berthing,
  • power,
  • under way,
  • lining,
  • going on,
  • posting,
  • employed,
  • praxis,
  • adroit,
  • basic,
  • military operation,
  • usefulness,
  • real,
  • true,
  • numbering,
  • Plying,
  • Deceasing,
  • essential,
  • ranging,
  • surviving,
  • Placing,
  • important,
  • exercise,
  • utilitarian,
  • act,
  • procedure,
  • into operation,
  • belonging,
  • surgical operation,
  • moulding.

Paraphrases for Functioning:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    function, functions, operating, operation.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    function, operating, operation.

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, past tense
    Worked.
  • Verb, past participle
    Worked.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    well-functioning.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    well-functioning, malfunctioning.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    functionally.
  • Proper noun, singular
    responsibilities, Resources, assignments, positions, events, handicaps, skills, Its.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Curricula, speakers, operandi, operationalization, conduct, effectiveness, maintenance, malfunction, conducting, existence.
  • Verb, past tense
    organized, Became.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    institutions, existing, commissioning, continuing, Fulfilling, Into, reoperating, executing, Facilitating, Sustaining, Administering, sitting, governing, affecting, Introducing, Enforcing, Depending, runnning, Managing, Undergoing, Organizing, rotating, complete, completing, using, Maintaining, coming, moving, select, official, werking, Exerting, enabling, Behaving, coping, Delivering, following, Relying, improving, Including, according, changing, ensuring, rendering, imposing, scheduling, Evolving, proceeding, Establishing, Carrying, pending, being, going, starting, Employing, Practising, Discharging, setting, playing, places, developing, seeking, Clicking, traveling, giving, serving, Providing, applied, dealing, Having, leading, happening, taking, keeping, marching, trying, making, operating, running, conducting.
  • Verb, past participle
    commissioned, announced, implemented, Launched, turned, Deployed, played.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    workable, functional, efficient, operational, running, effective.
  • Proper noun, singular
    functional, operational, operations, running.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    operability, functional, efficient, operational, running, effective.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    functional.

Antonyms for Functioning:

• adj.

  • active
    idle.
  • all
    malfunctioning.
  • Other antonyms:
    defective, latent, inert, kaput, nonfunctional, sleepy, haywire, unusable, quiescent, dead, useless, out of whack, bad, nonproductive, deactivated, unproductive, awry, nonoperational, lifeless, arrested, amiss, unworkable, decommissioned, inoperable, nonoperative, broken, nonoperating, ineffective, ineffectual, asleep, inactive, fallow, nonfunctioning, inoperative, dormant, wrong.

• n.

  • operation
    inactivity, inertia, idleness.

Hyponym for Functioning:

• n.

  • process
    process, physical process.