Difference between Functioning and Functional

What is the difference between Functioning and Functional?

Functioning as an adjective is working while Functional as an adjective is in good working order.

Functioning

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: working

Part of speech: noun

Definition: action of the verb to function The manner in something functions; the workings

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have a function.

Functional

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In good working order.Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a functionOnly for fuctional purposes, notably in architectureHaving semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

Example sentence: When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

We hope you now know whether to use Functioning or Functional in your sentence.

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