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,
  • at work,
  • in play,
  • going,
  • in process,
  • shifting,
  • Exertive,
  • operative,
  • functional,
  • walking,
  • in force,
  • swarming,
  • useful.
  •alive (adjective)
  • zoetic,
  • more subsisting,
  • growing,
  • more zoetic,
  • most subsisting,
  • most zoetic,
  • Subsisting,
  • most around,
  • more around.
  •all (adjective)
  • functioning.
  •going (adjective)
  • rustest.
  •running (adjective)
  • in operation,
  • in action,
  • cursive,
  • in succession.
  •working (adjective)
  • in gear,
  • on track,
  • on the job,
  • in a job,
  • in full swing.

• n.

  •
  • behavior,
  • proficiency,
  • reaction,
  • aptitude,
  • talent,
  • experience,
  • skill,
  • competence,
  • ability,
  • mastery,
  • prowess,
  • gift,
  • machine.
  •action (noun)
  • flurry,
  • industry,
  • big idea,
  • spirit,
  • stir,
  • in the works,
  • hopper,
  • in work,
  • enterprises,
  • Movements,
  • haste,
  • motion,
  • ballgame,
  • enterprise,
  • hoppers.
  •functioning (noun)
  • operation,
  • up.
  •running (noun)
  • Superintendency,
  • coordinations,
  • co-ordination,
  • intendance,
  • coordination.
  •work (noun)
  • salt mine,
  • salt mines,
  • grindstone,
  • grindstones.

• 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.

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.

Functioning Sentence Examples:

• With the immense difference, however, that his part therein is a factor of the development of traits, not of the mystical functioning of Life.

• Now and then open fireplaces are introduced, but the big stoves go on functioning just the same.

Hyponym for Functioning:

• n.

  • process
    process, physical process.