different between defunct vs dysfunctional

English

Etymology

From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin d?functus, past participle of d?fungor (“to finish, discharge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d??f??kt/
• (US) also IPA^(key): /?di?f??kt/

Adjective

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

1. (now rare) Deceased, dead.
   • 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante

     The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.

2. No longer in use, inactive.
3. (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.
4. (business) No longer in business or service.
5. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

Synonyms

• (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Translations

Verb

defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)

1. To make defunct.

Noun

defunct

1. The dead person (referred to).
   • 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:

     […] 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, […]

Related terms

• function
• bankrupt

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French défunt

Noun

defunct m (plural defunc?i)

1. deceased

Declension

English

Etymology

From dysfunction +? -al.

Adjective

dysfunctional (comparative more dysfunctional, superlative most dysfunctional)

1. Not performing its proper or intended function.
2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

Usage notes

Used frequently in regard to social and organizational functioning: "dysfunctional quality assurance", dysfunctional family, dysfunctional behavior.

Antonyms

• eufunctional
• functional

Derived terms

• dysfunctionality
• dysfunctionalization
• dysfunctionally

Related terms

• dysfunction (noun)

Translations