Word.ws English Dictionary

functorial

functorial adjective: able to be described as a functor.

Adjective

functorial (comparative more functorial, superlative most functorial)

  1. Able to be described as a functor.

Forms of functorial

comparativemore functorial
superlativemost functorial

Origin of functorial

From functor + -ial.

Words formed from functorial

Questions about functorial

What does functorial mean?
Functorial means able to be described as a functor.
What part of speech is functorial?
Functorial is an adjective.

Words near functorial in the dictionary

  1. functome
  2. functomes
  3. functor
  4. functor categories
  5. functor category
  6. functorial
  7. functorialities
  8. functoriality
  9. functorially
  10. functors
  11. functs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: functorial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “functorial.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/functorial. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.