Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having ceased to exist or live: a defunct political organization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dead; deceased; extinct.
- n. A dead person, or dead persons collectively; the dead: most commonly used of a recently deceased person.
Wiktionary
- adj. Deceased, dead.
- adj. No longer in use, inactive.
- adj. computing Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
- adj. business No longer in business or service.
- v. To make defunct.
- n. The dead person (referred to).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
- adj. No longer in effect or use; no longer operating.
- n. A dead person; one deceased.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. no longer in force or use; inactive.
- adj. having ceased to exist or live
Etymologies
- From Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor ("to finish, discharge"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin dēfūnctus, past participle of dēfungī, to finish : dē-, de- + fungī, to perform. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To blame the old liberal wing of the party, now pretty much defunct, is the equivalent of a baseball team blaming the batboy for a tragic loss.”
“Actor in defunct HDM series blames Pope for unemployment”
“In March, wrote back and they said that their supplier went "defunct" -- I thought People was the supplier.”
“And as a bonus question, name defunct MLB teams with three letters on the cap.”
“I've heard rumours that it's now defunct, which is a crine shame.”
“The word defunct in this instance means no longer in effect or use; no longer functioning or operating.”
“He is perhaps known as the defunct XFL's biggest star; he played under the moniker "He Hate Me.”
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“Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question — no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.”
“Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question -- no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.”
“We realize it could be impossible to recover costs from an overseas company that's been described as defunct with no assets, but it's going to take years to clean up the toxic site, so both efforts should be pursued concurrently.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Test Prep or Just for fun
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throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The New York Times
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precept, incohate, wade, impoverished, swath, defunct, tinge, sidle, boisterous, fraught, new your times, ungainly
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vocab 2
accrue, lenity, pellucid, smitten, implore, scrupulous, recalcitrant, melancholy, trudge, reverie, convivial, corrigible and 19 more...
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de-
away from; off; down; entirely; undo; reverse
detrain, decline, defunct, defrost, debility, detract, deduce, deduct, delineate, defuse, debunk, debase and 7 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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Fallacious Favourites
spurious, defunct, fungible, palimpsestic, lascivious, sliver, reiterate, efface, fiefdom, rambunctious, clamorous, verbatim and 4 more...
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 more...
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Daily We
proliferate, defunct, like-minded, like-minded people, barely, caution, emphasize, striking, emerging, increasingly, engage, exposure and 46 more...
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
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moribund, unflagging, defunct, sated, inveigling, opining, needling, fulminating, lauding, vassals, serfs, minions and 86 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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Tech Terms
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deprecated, null, defunct, zombie, reap
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gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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