1 practical and useful; with little or no decoration:
Bathrooms don't have to be purely functional. * The office was large and functional rather than welcoming.
2 having a special purpose; making it possible for sb to do sth or for sth to happen:
a functional disorder (= an illness caused when an organ of the body fails to perform its function) * a functional approach to language learning * These units played a key functional role in the military operation.
3 (especially of a machine, an organization or a system) working; able to work:
a fully functional hospital
functionally adverb
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