Word.ws English Dictionary

malfunctional

malfunctional adjective: not functioning as intended.

Adjective

malfunctional (comparative more malfunctional, superlative most malfunctional)

  1. Not functioning as intended.

Forms of malfunctional

comparativemore malfunctional
superlativemost malfunctional

Origin of malfunctional

From malfunction + -al or mal- + functional.

Questions about malfunctional

What does malfunctional mean?
Malfunctional means not functioning as intended.
What part of speech is malfunctional?
Malfunctional is an adjective.

Words near malfunctional in the dictionary

  1. Malfoycest
  2. malfunction
  3. malfunction junction
  4. malfunction routine
  5. malfunction routines
  6. malfunctional
  7. malfunctioned
  8. malfunctioner
  9. malfunctioners
  10. malfunctioning
  11. malfunctionings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: malfunctional (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: “malfunctional.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/malfunctional. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.