dead

Plural: deads

Noun

• The period of greatest intensity or profundity.
• people who are no longer living
  • "they buried the dead"
• a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  • "the dead of winter"
• Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• Those who have died: dead people.
• (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
• Clipping of deadlift.

Adjective

• No longer living; devoid of life or sensation.
• no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
  • "the nerve is dead"
  • "a dead pallor"
  • "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
• not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
  • "Mars is a dead planet"
  • "dead soil"
  • "dead coals"
  • "the fire is dead"

Adjective Satellite

• very tired
  • "I'm dead after that long trip"
• unerringly accurate
  • "a dead shot"
  • "took dead aim"
• physically inactive
  • "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
• (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
  • "passersby were dead to our plea for help"
• devoid of physical sensation; numb
  • "his gums were dead from the novocain"
  • "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"
• lacking acoustic resonance
  • "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"
  • "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
• not yielding a return
  • "dead capital"
• not circulating or flowing
  • "dead air"
  • "dead water"
• not surviving in active use
  • "Latin is a dead language"
• lacking resilience or bounce
  • "a dead tennis ball"
• out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
  • "a dead telephone line"
  • "the motor is dead"
• no longer having force or relevance
  • "a dead issue"
• complete
  • "came to a dead stop"
• drained of electric charge; discharged
  • "a dead battery"
• devoid of activity
  • "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

Adverb

• quickly and without warning
• completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
  • "you can be dead sure of my innocence"
  • "was dead tired"
  • "dead right"

Adj

• No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
• Devoid of living things; barren.
• Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
• Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
• Without emotion; impassive.
• Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
• Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• Unproductive; fallow.
• Past, bygone, vanished.
• Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
• Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
• Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
• Broken or inoperable.
• No longer used or required.
• Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
• Not in play.
• Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
• Tagged out.
• Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
• Exact; on the dot.
• Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
• Dying of laughter.
• Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
• Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
• Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
• Bringing death; deadly.
• Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
• Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.

Adv

• Exactly.
• Very, absolutely, extremely.
• Suddenly and completely.
• As if dead.

Verb

• To prevent by disabling; to stop.
• To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• To kill.
• To discontinue or put an end to (something).

Examples

• "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
• A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
• a dead eye
• a dead floor
• a dead glass of soda.
• a dead level
• a dead lift
• a dead planet
• A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
• After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
• All of my grandparents are dead.
• dead aim
• dead air
• dead center
• dead fields
• dead giveaway
• dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
• dead silence
• dead sleep
• dead stop
• dead time
• dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
• dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
• For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
• Have respect for the dead.
• He hit the target dead in the centre.
• He is dead to me.
• He stopped dead.
• He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
• His rack was dead, with no possible Scrabble plays in sight.
• In the dead of the Scrabble tournament, focus was paramount.
• Is this beer glass dead?
• Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
• OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
• Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
• raise the dead
• She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
• That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
• The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
• the dead load on the floor
• the dead of night
• the dead of winter
• the dead spindle of a lathe
• the quick and the dead
• The villagers are mourning their dead.
• There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
• wake the dead
• Will the dead rise again?

Synonyms

abruptly, absolutely, all in, beat, bushed, deadened, drained, idle, numb, perfectly, short, stagnant, suddenly, utter, utterly, LMAO, RIP, ROFL, asleep, at rest, cadaverous, clay-cold, crying, deceased, deceased#Noun, decomposed, defunct, departed, departed#Noun, expired, extinct, fey, gone, good, inanimate, inert, kaput, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, mul:💀, mul:😭, no longer with us, no more, perished, reposing, resting, six feet deep, six feet under, stiff, wasted, whilom, with God

Antonyms

alive, live, living, ;, bustling#Adjective, busy, crowded#Adjective, hopping#Adjective, lively, living#Noun, noisy, quick#Noun

Related Words

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