high-functioning
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Functioning or operating at a high level.
adj
Of a person with a developmental or intellectual disability or mental illness, able to function in society; not greatly affected by a disability or illness.
adj
Of a person with autism, exhibiting relatively high cognitive function.
Example Sentences
- "The high-functioning therapists were found to have a greater tendency to confront patients and, when they did so, confronted them with their resources."
- "A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses..."
- "Analysis of Wechsler IQ test scores for high-functioning autistic children and adults with Verbal and Full Scale IQ≥70 only partially supports previous contentions about the presence of a distinct profile of scores in autism."
Etymology
From high + functioning.
Inflected Forms
more high-functioning (comparative)
higher-functioning (comparative)
most high-functioning (superlative)
highest-functioning (superlative)
high functioning (alternative)