Dead

[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"
[adv] 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"
[adv] quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
[adj] devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
[adj] physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
[adj] not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
[adj] lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
[adj] drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
[adj] no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
[adj] no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
[adj] lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
[adj] not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
[adj] out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
[adj] unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
[adj] not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
[adj] lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
[adj] 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"

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Synonyms

abruptly, absolutely, asleep(p), assassinated, at peace(p), at rest(p), barren, bloodless, brain dead, breathless, cold, d.o.a., deadened, deathlike, deathly, deceased, defunct, departed, doomed, drained, exanimate, executed, exsanguine, exsanguinous, ext

Antonyms

alive(p), animate, live, living

Related Terms

a outrance, abeyant, abrupt, abruptly, absolute, absolutely, accurate, achromatic, achromic, ago, all bets off, all gone, all in, all off, all out, all over, all up, all-out, anechoic, anemic, anesthetized, annihilated, antiquated, antique, apathetic, ari