defunct as an adjective: - 1
- 2
defunct
adjective
1 defunct
No longer in force or use; inactive.
Roget 2:
inexistent†,
nonexistent
etc.
1;
negative,
blank;
missing,
omitted;
absent
etc.
187;
insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary.
unreal,
potential,
virtual;
baseless,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
vain.
unborn,
uncreated†,
unbegotten,
unconceived,
unproduced,
unmade.
perished,
annihilated,
etc.
v.;
extinct,
exhausted,
gone,
lost,
vanished,
departed,
gone with the wind;
defunct
etc.
(dead)
360.
fabulous,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515,
supposititious
etc.
514.
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Roget 360:
dead,
lifeless;
deceased,
demised,
departed,
defunct,
extinct;
late,
gone,
no more;
exanimate†,
inanimate;
out of the world,
taken off,
released;
departed this life
etc.
v.;
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
etc.
v.;
moribund,
morient†;
hippocratic;
in articulo,
in extremis;
in the jaws of death,
in the agony of death;
going off;
aux abois [Fr.];
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
etc.
(killing)
361.
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2 defunct
Having ceased to exist or live.
noun
Roget 362:
corpse,
corse†,
carcass,
cadaver,
bones,
skeleton,
dry bones;
defunct,
relics,
reliquiae [Lat.],
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.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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