Difference between Dead and Defunct

What is the difference between Dead and Defunct?

Dead as an adjective is no longer living. while Defunct as an adjective is deceased, dead.

Dead

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. Those who have died.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: No longer living. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life be dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored. Without emotion. Stationary; static. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. Unproductive. Completely inactive; without power; without a signal. Broken or inoperable. No longer used or required. Not in play. Full and complete. Exact. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Exactly right. Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to prevent by disabling; stop

Example sentence: God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Defunct

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Deceased, dead.No longer in use, inactive.Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.No longer in business or service.

We hope you now know whether to use Dead or Defunct in your sentence.

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