funct-, fungi- (Latin: to perform, execute, discharge; performance, service, execution).defunct:
1. No longer in existence; having ceased its functions; dead, extinct.
2. No longer operative, valid, or functional. defunctive:
Of or pertaining to defunction or dying. Also, becoming defunct; dying.
dysfunction:
A medical abnormality in the functioning of an organ or other part or system of the body.
dysfunctional:
1. Failing to perform the function that is normally expected.
2. Unable to function emotionally as a social unit. 3. In medicine, unable to function normally as a result of disease or impairment. function:
1. An action or use for which something is suited or designed.
2. An activity or role assigned to someone or something. 3. A social gathering or ceremony, especially a formal or official occasion. 4. A quality or characteristic that depends upon and varies with another. functional:
1. Having a practical application or serving a useful purpose.
2. In good working order or working at the moment. 3. Without apparent organic or structural cause. functional illiterate:
Someone whose reading and writing abilities are inadequately developed to meet everyday needs.
functionalism:
1. Belief that the intended function of something should determine its design, construction, and choice of materials, or a 20th-century design movement based on this.
2. Any philosophy or system that gives practical and utilitarian concerns priority over esthetic concerns. functional literacy:
The level of skill in reading and writing that an individual needs to cope with everyday adult life.
functionary:
Someone who performs official duties; especially, a person whose duties are regarded as trivial.
functor:
Someone or something that performs a function.
fungible:
1. Capable of being interchanged.
2. A description of commodities that can be traded or substituted for an equal amount of like commodity, usually to satisfy a contract. hyperfunction, hyperfunctional:
In medicine, over-activity or over-production (in a gland or other part of the body).
hypofunction, hypofunctional:
In medicine, diminished or insufficient activity or production (in a gland or other part of the body).
malfunction, malfunctioning:
Faulty functioning.
multifunction, multifunctional:
Having or fulfilling many functions.
perfunctory, perfunctorily, perfunctoriness:
1. Done as a matter of duty or custom, without thought, attention, or genuine feeling.
2. Done hastily or superficially. underfunction:
Primarily in medicine, to exhibit underfunction; to have a diminished capacity for acting and responding.
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