function
noun
the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
functionless
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a word derived from
function.
Example Sentences
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Developers pleaded with city, county and state officials for a $300 million bailout, warning the project could halt mid-construction, leaving a functionless cement and steel skeleton, looming over prime downtown real estate.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
And $1,000 for the printer plus $43 for each spool of filament is a hefty price to pay for a functionless, semidecorative piece of plastic I could buy for like 23 cents.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2014
The faulty assumption here seems to be that the more functionless clothes are, the more like art they become.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2013
Much, perhaps most, of the DNA in our genomes—despite being occasionally transcribed, and thus recorded in ENCODE—is still functionless “junk DNA.”
From Scientific American ● Dec. 20, 2012
Moreover, if that series has been developed gradually and very slowly, it follows, also as a matter of necessity, that every modification of structure must have been functionless at first, when it began to appear....
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
