Dead

[ded] or [dɛd]

Definition

(noun.) people who are no longer living; 'they buried the dead'.

(noun.) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; 'the dead of winter'.

(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'; 'dead soil'; 'dead coals'; 'the fire is dead' .

(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.) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; 'a dead telephone line'; 'the motor is dead' .

(adj.) lacking resilience or bounce; 'a dead tennis ball' .

(adj.) not surviving in active use; 'Latin is a dead language' .

(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' .

(adj.) complete; 'came to a dead stop'; 'utter seriousness' .

(adj.) not circulating or flowing; 'dead air'; 'dead water'; 'stagnant water' .

(adj.) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; 'passersby were dead to our plea for help'; 'numb to the cries for mercy' .

Typist: Natalie--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.

(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.

(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.

(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.

(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.

(a.) Bringing death; deadly.

(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.

(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.

(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.

(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.

(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

Editor: Theresa

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Lifeless, breathless, inanimate, deceased, defunct, departed, gone, gone to one's last home, gathered to one's fathers.[2]. Dull, frigid, cold, torpid, inert, unfeeling, callous, obtuse, indifferent, lukewarm.[3]. Vapid, tasteless, insipid, flat.[4]. Unemployed, useless, unprofitable.[5]. Entire, complete, total.

n. Depth, gloomiest period.

Edited by Candice

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Defunct, deceased, departed, gone, inanimate, lifeless, insensible, heavy,unconscious, dull, spiritless, cheerless, deserted, torpid, still

ANT:Vital, living, animate, vivacious, susceptible, alive, joyous, stirring,thronged, bustling

Checked by Amy

Definition

adj. without life: death-like: at rest of a ball: cold and cheerless: without vegetation: utter: unerring.—v.t. to deaden dull.—adv. in a dead manner.—n. the time of greatest stillness as 'the dead of night.'—adjs. Dead′-alive′ Dead′-and-alive′ dull uneventful; Dead′-beat quite overcome; Dead′-born still-born.—n.pl. Dead′-clothes clothes in which to bury the dead.—n. Dead′-col′ouring the first broad outlines of a picture.—adjs. Dead′-do′ing (Spens.) putting to death destructive; Dead′-drunk completely drunk.—v.t. Dead′en to make dead: to deprive partly of vigour or sensation: to blunt: to lessen.—ns. Dead′-eye (naut.) a round flattish wooden block with a rope or iron band passing round it and pierced with three holes for a lanyard; Dead′-fall a trap operated by a weight that when its support is removed falls upon and kills or holds an animal; Dead′-freight money paid for the empty space in a ship by a person who engages to freight her but fails to make out a full cargo; Dead′-head (U.S.) one who is allowed without payment to ride in a public carriage sit in a theatre or hold a privilege having a money value; Dead′-heat a heat or race in which no one gains the advantage; Dead′-house the house or room where (in hospitals police-offices &c.) dead bodies are kept till buried: a mortuary; Dead′-lett′er a letter undelivered and unclaimed at the post-office: a law or ordinance which has been made but never enforced; Dead′-lev′el a stretch of land without any rising ground: sameness; Dead′-lift a lift made without help leverage &c.; hence an effort under discouraging conditions.—n.pl. Dead′-lights storm-shutters for a cabin window.—ns. Dead′liness; Dead′-lock the case when matters have become so complicated that all is at a complete standstill.—adj. Dead′ly causing death: fatal: implacable.—adv. in a manner resembling death.—ns. Dead′ly-night′shade the plant Belladonna (q.v.); Dead′-march a piece of solemn music played at funeral processions esp. of soldiers; Dead′-meat the flesh of animals ready for the market.—n.pl. Dead′-men empty bottles after a carouse.—ns. Dead′ness; Dead′-nett′le a genus of plants of the natural order Labiat so called because they resemble nettles but do not sting; Dead′-pay continued pay dishonestly drawn for men actually dead; Dead′-reck′oning an estimation of a ship's place simply by the log-book; Dead′-rope a rope not running in any block; Dead′-set a determined and prolonged attempt; Dead′-shot an unerring marksman.—adj. Dead′-stroke without recoil.—ns. Dead′-wall a wall unbroken by windows or other openings; Dead′-wa′ter the eddy water closing in behind a ship's stern as she sails; Dead′-weight a heavy or oppressive burden; Dead′-wind a wind coming directly ahead or opposed to a ship's course; Dead′-wood pieces of timber laid on the upper side of the keel at either end useless material; Dead′-work work itself unprofitable which is necessary as a preliminary as the opening of a mine.—Dead as a door-nail absolutely dead; Dead language one no longer spoken; Dead-men's bells the foxglove; Dead-men's fingers a very common cœlenterate belonging to the Actinozoa—also Cow-paps and Mermaid's glove; Dead-men's shoes a situation formerly held by some one now dead; Dead's part (Scots law) the part of a man's movable property which he may bequeath by will and which is not due to wife and children.—Be dead set against to be utterly opposed to.—Put the dead wood on (U.S. slang) to gain a great advantage over.

Typed by Bartholdi