functional

working or serving a purpose

Root

  • funct: perform, carry out, or discharge a duty

Other words with the funct root

  • function: purpose, role, or performance
  • functionary: official who performs a role, often routinely
  • perfunctory: done with little care or merely as routine

Functional means able to perform its job.

The first prototype was ugly but functional.

It may not be elegant; it does the work it was built for.

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