English Language & Usage Asked on May 6, 2021
I’m looking for a word in that is an antonym of operational in something other than "does it function" and the online dictionary/thesaurus don’t have it. Can you help me find the word, and tell me how you did it so I can find it myself later?
How I would like to use it:
Webster gives the following definition for "operational":
My purpose uses it in the sense of day-to-day operations.
It goes on to enumerate antonyms and synonyms as follows:
These are really on the "does it work vs. does it not work" spectrum. They are not on the "day-to-day, recurring, small scope, tactical operations as contrasted against serving a non-recurring, larger scoped, more strategic goal."
Options that don’t work:
(update) About what should work:
Obsolete: A. adj.1. No longer used or practised; ....
1930 Economist 25 Jan. 163/2 The managing director of an important ship-building firm..expresses agreement with a statement that much of the plant in this industry is obsolete.
1967 A. E. Stevenson New Amer. II. iii. 64 Nothing is more hazardous in military policy than rigid adherence to obsolete ideas.
Answered by Greybeard on May 6, 2021
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