Appropriate
Appropriate adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.
Functional and appropriate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Functional" instead an adjective "Appropriate".
Functional
Functional adjective - Being in effective operation.
Appropriate and functional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appropriate" instead an adjective "Functional".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In a Friends episode, "Fun Bob" was the life of the party (in an appropriate and functional way) when drunk, but was lethargic and boring when sober.
Source: Sentimental Drunk - Even if a missile was still functional after 15+ years of abandonment, and targeted on the appropriate city, there would be no way to fire it without manually turning the keys.
Source: A Nuclear Error -
Animusic originally created its "Pipe Dream" video as a CGI visualization, but Intel has made a functional version of the devices in the video, down to having notes play when launched balls strike the appropriate keys.
Source: Defictionalization
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