Defunct vs Derelict - What's the difference?
defunct | derelict |
Deceased, dead.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
No longer in use, inactive.
(computing) 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.
(business) No longer in business or service.
The dead person (referred to).
* 1817 September , in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine , volume 1, page 617:
Abandoned, forsake; given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
* Jeremy Taylor
* {{quote-news
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, title=When and where did NASA's derelict satellite go down?
Negligent in performing a duty.
Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
* Burke
* John Buchanan
Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
* {{quote-book
, year=1907
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, author=Robert W. Service
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
(dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
* 1911 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (Norton 2005, p.1364):
A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene.
* 1988 , Jonathan D. Spence, The Question of Hu :
* 2002 , in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence'', ''The Boy in the Bush , edited by Paul Eggert, page 22:
* 2004 , Katherine V. W. Stone, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation , page 280:
As adjectives the difference between defunct and derelict
is that defunct is deceased, dead while derelict is abandoned, forsake; given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.As nouns the difference between defunct and derelict
is that defunct is the dead person (referred to) while derelict is property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.As a verb defunct
is to make defunct.defunct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- defunct organs
- The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.
Noun
derelict
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was a derelict ship on the island.
- The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.
citation
- They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
- A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.
Synonyms
* (abandoned) abandonedNoun
(en noun)- A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.
- As they hunt, the Archers and Duval find many derelicts and ne'er-do-wells in many parts of Paris.
- If they're lazy derelicts and ne'er-do-wells she'll eat 'em up. But she's waiting for real men — British to the bone —
- We see the distinction at work when victims of natural disasters and terrorist attacks are treated more generously than derelicts and drug addicts.
