If you know that de- often means "the opposite of", it's easy to guess the meaning of defunct. Shakespeare seems to have been the first writer to use this adjective, in Henry V. Defunct …

For all practical purposes, the association became defunct and no longer worked on the garden or other projects.

Defunct describes something that used to exist, but is now gone. A magazine that no longer publishes, like Sassy, the girl-power mag from the '90s, is defunct, for example.

If something is defunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating. ...the leader of the now defunct Social Democratic Party. They bought all their equipment from a defunct …

1. no longer in effect or use: a defunct law. 2. no longer in existence; dead; extinct.

1 day ago · Adjective defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct) No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. Synonyms: antiquated, disused, outdated; see also …

DEFUNCT definition: no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning. See examples of defunct used in a sentence.

Definition of defunct adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

No longer in existence, operational, or functioning as it once did. "The defunct factory was a reminder of the town's industrial decline." When applied to an organization, business, or entity, …

Britannica Dictionary definition of DEFUNCT [more defunct; most defunct] formal : no longer existing or being used a defunct steel company