functionable

[ fuhngk-shuh-nuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. functional ( def 3 ).

Other Words From

• function·a·bili·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of functionable¹

function + -able

Example Sentences

Ultimately, America's failure to accept the reality that healthcare is not a functionABLE market is at the core of all the retirement, employment, political and financial problems.

From New York Times

Her hand is "more functionable" without the prosthetic which has very little movement, she said.

From BBC

Related: News Corp profits halve after weak newspaper ad sales Thomson said: “A lot of advertisers are a little confused about where they should be advertising. It’s almost an argument between the fashionable and the functionable. “If you look at a lot of so-called contemporary content sites, you know who they are, I don’t have to name and shame them – like BuzzFeed for instance – the amount of trash traffic on those sites is significant.

From The Guardian

She has spoken of herself as lacking physical courage, and has evinced her admiration of Clara's; but she had moral courage, which is the rarest of human qualities, and she kept it functionable by exercising it.

From Project Gutenberg

I saw that the dog was a mistake, and not functionable: we must try something else; something, if possible, that could evoke sentiment, interest, feeling.

From Project Gutenberg