defunct vs ex-

defunct

noun
  • The dead person (referred to). 

adj
  • No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. 

  • No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again. 

  • Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process. 

  • (of a language) No longer spoken. 

verb
  • To make defunct. 

ex-

prefix
  • former, but still living (almost always used with a hyphen) 

  • out of 

  • outside 

  • Lacking. 

How often have the words defunct and ex- occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )