Down
Down adjective - Not being in working order.
Usage example: while my computer was down, I attended to some unfinished odds and ends lying about my cubicle
Nonfunctional and down are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nonfunctional" instead an adjective "Down".
Nearby Word: downed
Nonfunctional
Nonfunctional adjective - Not being in working order.
Usage example: that gas pump is nonfunctional, which is the reason for the plastic bag over the nozzle
Down and nonfunctional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Down" instead an adjective "Nonfunctional".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In Star Control II, when you meet the final remaining Shofixti warrior, his sensors are nonfunctional and he assumes that you are an Ur-Quan destroyer sent to hunt him down.
Source: Out-of-Character Alert -
Film at 11 / Kent Brockman News From Bad to Worse: The "Zinc" filmstrip sketch starts out with soap disappearing and ends with a woman's child shot, her husband dead of a heart attack, her car nonfunctional, her house burning down, and the housewife short a limb or two.
Source: Film / The Kentucky Fried Movie - Most humans aboard the ship are worn-down and stressed out from the abuse, but one in particular is mostly nonfunctional as a result of being constantly dripfed psychic terror for months, his hair has gone white from stress and his fiancée mourns his old personality as if he was dead.
Source: Mind Rape / Doctor Who
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