high-functioning

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Functioning or operating at a high level.
    — The high-functioning therapists were found to have a greater tendency to confront patients and, when they did so, confronted them with their resources.
  2. 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.
    — A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses...
  3. Of a person with autism, exhibiting relatively high cognitive function.
    — 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.

词形变化

more high-functioning comparative higher-functioning comparative most high-functioning superlative highest-functioning superlative high functioning alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
high-functioning autism
并列词
low-functioning

词源

From high + functioning.
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