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Adjective: dead (deader,deadest) ded- Not alive; no 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" - [informal] Very tired
"I'm dead after that long trip"; - all in, beat [informal], bushed - (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
"passersby were dead to our plea for help"; - numb - 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" - Not circulating or flowing
"dead air"; "dead water"; - stagnant - The complete stoppage of an action
"came to a dead stop" - Unerringly accurate
"a dead shot"; "took dead aim" - Physically inactive
"Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" - Devoid of physical sensation; numb
"his gums were dead from the novocain"; - deadened - Lacking acoustic resonance
"dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" - Not yielding a return
"dead capital"; - idle - 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" - Drained of electric charge; discharged
"a dead battery"; - drained, flat [Brit] - Devoid of activity
"this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" Noun: dead ded- 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" Adverb: dead ded- Quickly and without warning
"he stopped dead"; - abruptly, suddenly, short - Completely and without qualification; used informally as an intensifier
"you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"; - absolutely, perfectly, utterly
Derived forms: deads, deadest, deader See also: aliveness, animation, asleep, assassinated, at peace, at rest, bloodless, brain dead, breathless, cold, complete, d.o.a., deathlike, deathly, deceased, defunct, departed, doomed, exanimate, executed, exsanguine, exsanguinous, extinct, fallen, gone, inactive, inanimate, inelastic, inoperative, insensitive, late, life, lifeless, living, murdered, noncurrent, nonextant, nonresonant, nonviable, out, out of play, precise, pulseless, slain [literary], standing, stillborn, stone-dead, tired, uncharged, unprofitable, unreverberant, vitality Type of: people, time Antonym: alive, live, living Encyclopedia: Dead, Hot And Ready |