defunctive

[dih-fuhngk-tiv]

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adjective

of or relating to the dead; funereal.

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Origin of defunctive

1595–1605; < Latin dēfunct(us) defunct + -ive

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appalling cadaverous dreadful gaunt ghastly grim gruesome haggard horrible macabre pale pallid wan wasted deathlike defunctive