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Meaning of defunctive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

funereal or deathly

archaic

Examples

“Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right.”
“The road was now a black tunnel floored with the impalpable defunctive glare of the sand.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

defusable defusive defuzzied defying dégagé degalactosylated

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