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Inoperable vs Defunct - What's the difference?

inoperable | defunct |

As adjectives the difference between inoperable and defunct

is that inoperable is inoperable while defunct is deceased, dead.

As a verb defunct is

to make defunct.

As a noun defunct is

the dead person (referred to).

inoperable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Incapable of being successfully surgically operated on.
  • Incapable of correct operation or function; inoperative.

    • defunct

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deceased, dead.
  • * Shakespeare
    • defunct organs
  • * Byron
    • The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make defunct.

    • Noun

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

    • Related terms

    * function * bankrupt