defunct

Adjective Satellite

• no longer in force or use; inactive
  • "a defunct law"
  • "a defunct organization"
• having ceased to exist or live
  • "the will of a defunct aunt"
  • "a defunct Indian tribe"

Adj

• No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
• No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
• No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
• Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
• (of a language) No longer spoken.
• Deceased, dead.

Verb

• To make defunct.

Noun

• The dead person (referred to).

Adjective

• No longer existing, living, or functioning; obsolete.

Examples

• The strategy of only playing two-letter words became defunct once the opponent started playing bingos.

Synonyms

Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, discontinued, disused, dootsie, elderly, expired, extinct, fossilized, idle, obsolete, old, old school, old-fashioned, oldfangled, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless

Related Words

bankrupt, function

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