defunct

adjective · verb · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more defunct
Superlative
most defunct
  1. 1.

    No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

    Đồng nghĩa: antiquated, disused, outdated, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, desuete,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Havishamesque, hoary, idle, Miss Havishamesque, mouldy, obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old school, outdated, outmoded, out of date, out of fashion, outworn, parachronistic, passé, primitive, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless

  2. 2.

    (computing) 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.

  3. 3.

    (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

  4. 4.

    (archaic)(now rare) Deceased, dead.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
defuncts
V_ing/Gerund
defuncting
V_ed/pp
defuncted
  1. 1.

    To make defunct.

Danh từ

noun
  1. 1.

    The dead person (referred to).

    […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

antiquateddisusedoutdatedanachronisticantediluvialantediluvianantiquearchaicbackwardbackwardsbehind the timescobwebbedcobwebbydateddesuetediscontinueddootsieelderlyextinctexpired

Cùng gốc / liên quan

defunctnessfunctionbankrupt

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (to finish, discharge).

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 14/8/2026

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