functionally

English

Etymology

From functional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

functionally (comparative more functionally, superlative most functionally)

1. In a functional manner.
   • 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 3 November 2022:

     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.

Derived terms

• biofunctionally
• functionally complete
• neurofunctionally
• polyfunctionally