Key and Working

Key

Key adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Working and key are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Key and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Key" instead an adjective "Working".

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

old	old key	old working
valuable	valuable key	valuable working
normal	normal key	normal working
proper	proper key	proper working
Other adjectives: powerful, actual, real, large, big, bad, main, private, new, major, final, different, giant, red.

Marc Anthony finds it cute, until Pussyfoot manages to get the toy car working and starts driving erratically, possibly because of the aforementioned removal of the key.

Source: Wind-Up Key
This can be pretty frustrating when you're mashing away at the enter key to test how your animation is working.

Source: Damn You, Muscle Memory
Climbing the stairs, because the elevator was no longer working, Shinji arrived at the apartment and realized after a few seconds that he no longer had the key on him.

Source: Trash of the Titans

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Working or Key. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/key/working.

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