Word Meanings - DEFUNCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron. (more info) self of, to perform, finish, depart, die; de + fungi to perform,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFUNCT)
- Dead
- Defunct
- deceased
- departed
- gone
- inanimate
- lifeless
- insensible
- heavy
- unconscious
- dull
- spiritless
- cheerless
- deserted
- torpid
- still
Related words: (words related to DEFUNCT)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - LIFELESS
Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - UNCONSCIOUS
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - INSENSIBLENESS
Insensibility. Bp. Hall. - DEPARTURE
The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. - DEPARTMENT
1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - DEPARTMENTAL
Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. - STILLING
A stillion. - DEFUNCTION
Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - INANIMATE
To animate. Donne. - STILLROOM
1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens. - DESERTLESS
Without desert. - STILL-HUNT
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. - HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl. - STILLATORY
1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller. - PISTILLATION
The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.