dead

  • (r) quickly and without warning
    • he stopped suddenly
    abruptly, short, suddenly,
  • (a) 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
  • (r) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
    • 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
    absolutely, perfectly, utterly,
  • (a) 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
  • (s) very tired
    • 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
    all in, beat, bushed,
  • (s) unerringly accurate
    • a dead shot
    • took dead aim
  • (s) physically inactive
    • Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
  • (s) (followed by "to") not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
    • passersby were dead to our plea for help
    • numb to the cries for mercy
    numb,
  • (s) devoid of physical sensation; numb
    • 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
    deadened,
  • (s) lacking acoustic resonance
    • dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
    • the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
  • (s) not yielding a return
    • dead capital
    • idle funds
    idle,
  • (s) not circulating or flowing
    • dead air
    • dead water
    • stagnant water
    stagnant,
  • (s) not surviving in active use
    • Latin is a dead language
  • (s) lacking resilience or bounce
    • a dead tennis ball
  • (s) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
    • a dead telephone line
    • the motor is dead
  • (s) no longer having force or relevance
    • a dead issue
  • (s) complete
    • came to a dead stop
    • utter seriousness
    utter,
  • (s) drained of electric charge; discharged
    • a dead battery
    • left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
    drained,
  • (s) devoid of activity
    • this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here

Nouns

  • (n) people who are no longer living
    • they buried the dead
  • (n) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
    • the dead of winter

Synonyms

abruptly short suddenly absolutely perfectly utterly all in beat bushed numb deadened idle stagnant utter drained

Antonyms

living alive live

See also

extinct

Words of close approximity

deaf deal dean dear
DEA deb dec DEd den DES dew
deaf deal dean dear Debs debt deck deco deed deem deep deer deft defy delf deli dell demo dent deny derv desk Devi dewy
dead ahead dead air dead-air space dead axle deadbeat deadbeat dad dead body deadbolt dead center dead centre dead drop dead duck deaden dead end dead-end dead-end street deadened deadening deadeye dead hand dead hand of the past deadhead dead heat dead language dead letter deadlight deadline deadliness dead load deadlock deadlocked deadly deadly nightshade deadly sin dead mail dead-man's-fingers dead-man's float dead march dead-men's-fingers dead metaphor deadness dead nettle dead-on dead on target deadpan dead person dead reckoning dead ringer dead room Dead Sea Dead Sea scrolls dead set dead soul dead weight deadwood