Meanings
comparative more functionally · superlative most functionally
- In a functional manner.
1 more example
The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰewg-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰunégti
- Proto-Italic*fungōr
- Latinfungor
- Latinfūnctiō
- Old Frenchfonction
- Middle Frenchfunction
- Englishfunction
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfunctional
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishfunctionally
From functional + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
functionally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/functionally
“functionally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/functionally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “functionally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/functionally.
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