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English adjective: dead | |||
| 1. | dead no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | ||
| Samples | The nerve is dead. A dead pallor. He was marked as a dead man by the assassin. | ||
| Similar | asleep, assassinated, at peace, at rest, bloodless, brain dead, breathless, cold, d.o.a., deathlike, deathly, deceased, defunct, departed, doomed, exanimate, executed, exsanguine, exsanguinous, fallen, gone, inanimate, late, lifeless, murdered, nonviable, pulseless, slain, stillborn, stone-dead | ||
| Attribute | aliveness, animation, animation, life, living, vitality | ||
| Antonyms | alive, live | ||
| 2. | dead not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | ||
| Samples | Mars is a dead planet. Dead soil. Dead coals. The fire is dead. | ||
| Similar | extinct, lifeless, out, out of play | ||
| See also | extinct | ||
| Antonyms | live | ||
| 3. | dead very tired | ||
| Samples | Was all in at the end of the day. So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere. Bushed after all that exercise. I'm dead after that long trip. | ||
| Synonyms | all in, beat, bushed | ||
| Similar | tired | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | rested | ||
| 4. | dead unerringly accurate | ||
| Samples | A dead shot. Took dead aim. | ||
| Similar | precise | ||
| Antonyms | imprecise | ||
| 5. | dead physically inactive | ||
| Samples | Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range. | ||
| Similar | extinct | ||
| Antonyms | active | ||
| 6. | dead (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | ||
| Samples | Passersby were dead to our plea for help. Numb to the cries for mercy. | ||
| Synonyms | numb | ||
| Similar | insensitive | ||
| Antonyms | sensitive | ||
| 7. | dead devoid of physical sensation; numb | ||
| Samples | His gums were dead from the novocain. She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth. A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities. | ||
| Synonyms | deadened | ||
| Similar | insensitive | ||
| Antonyms | sensitive | ||
| 8. | dead lacking acoustic resonance | ||
| Samples | Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs. The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio. | ||
| Similar | nonresonant, unreverberant | ||
| Antonyms | reverberant | ||
| 9. | dead not yielding a return | ||
| Samples | Dead capital. Idle funds. | ||
| Synonyms | idle | ||
| Similar | unprofitable | ||
| Antonyms | profitable | ||
| 10. | dead not circulating or flowing | ||
| Samples | Dead air. Dead water. Stagnant water. | ||
| Synonyms | stagnant | ||
| Similar | standing | ||
| Antonyms | running | ||
| 11. | dead not surviving in active use | ||
| Samples | Latin is a dead language. | ||
| Similar | extinct, nonextant | ||
| Antonyms | extant | ||
| 12. | dead lacking resilience or bounce | ||
| Samples | A dead tennis ball. | ||
| Similar | inelastic | ||
| Antonyms | elastic | ||
| 13. | dead out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | ||
| Samples | A dead telephone line. The motor is dead. | ||
| Similar | inoperative | ||
| Antonyms | operative | ||
| 14. | dead no longer having force or relevance | ||
| Samples | A dead issue. | ||
| Similar | noncurrent | ||
| Antonyms | current | ||
| 15. | dead complete | ||
| Samples | Came to a dead stop. Utter seriousness. | ||
| Synonyms | utter | ||
| Similar | complete | ||
| Antonyms | incomplete, uncomplete | ||
| 16. | dead drained of electric charge; discharged | ||
| Samples | A dead battery. Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained. | ||
| Synonyms | drained | ||
| Similar | uncharged | ||
| Antonyms | charged | ||
| 17. | dead devoid of activity | ||
| Samples | This is a dead town; nothing ever happens here. | ||
| Similar | inactive | ||
| Antonyms | active | ||
English noun: dead | |||
| 1. | dead (group) people who are no longer living | ||
| Samples | They buried the dead. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | slain | ||
| Member holonym | dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed | ||
| Antonyms | living | ||
| 2. | dead (time) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | ||
| Samples | The dead of winter. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | time | ||
English adverb: dead | |||
| 1. | dead quickly and without warning | ||
| Samples | He stopped suddenly. | ||
| Synonyms | abruptly, short, suddenly | ||
| 2. | dead completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | ||
| Samples | An absolutely magnificent painting. A perfectly idiotic idea. You're perfectly right. Utterly miserable. You can be dead sure of my innocence. Was dead tired. Dead right. | ||
| Synonyms | absolutely, perfectly, utterly | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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