defunct

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: de=funct

OXFORD DICTIONARY

defunct, adj.
1 no longer existing.
2 no longer used or in fashion.
3 dead or extinct.

Derivative

defunctness n.

Etymology

L defunctus dead, past part. of defungi (as DE-, fungi perform)

THESAURUS

defunct

SOL, ago, all bets off, all gone, all off, all over, all up, annihilated, antiquated, antique, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at an end, at rest, bereft of life, blown over, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, called home, canceled, carrion, cold, complete, concluded, croaked, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decided, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done, done for, done with, down the drain, elapsed, ended, exanimate, expired, expunged, extinct, fallen, fini, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, had it, has-been, inactive, inanimate, inapplicable, inert, inoperative, invalid, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lost, martyred, no more, obsolete, out, outmoded, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, perfected, perished, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, set at rest, settled, shot, sleeping, smitten with death, still, stillborn, taken away, taken off, terminated, through, through with, unusable, unused, vanished, washed up, wiped out, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up, zapped

ROGET THESAURUS

defunct

Inexistence

N inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration, inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious &c, negatively, virtually, non ens.

Death

N death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Corpse

N corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones, defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay, mummy, carrion, food for worms, food for fishes, tenement of clay this mortal coil, shade, ghost, manes, organic remains, fossils, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, sapromyiophyllous.