defunct

dih-FUNKTadj

Meaning no longer existing, working or in use

Memory hook DE-FUNCT: no longer FUNCTIONS. The old robot in the alley no longer functions: no lights, no beeps, just a puff of dust. It is defunct.

The defunct factory has been turned into apartments and a bakery.

In context Weeds grew between the rails of the defunct railway line; no train had run there in thirty years, and the station clock had stopped at a quarter past four.

Similar extinct, dead, disused, inoperative

Opposite working, active, operating

From Latin defunctus, “finished, dead,” from defungi, “to finish one’s work”: de (off) + fungi (to perform).

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