functionally
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From functional + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]functionally (comparative more functionally, superlative most functionally)
- In a functional manner.
- 2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
