Lifeless
['laɪflɪs]
Definition
(adj.) deprived of life; no longer living; 'a lifeless body' .
(adj.) not having the capacity to support life; 'a lifeless planet' .
(adj.) lacking animation or excitement or activity; 'the party being dead we left early'; 'it was a lifeless party until she arrived' .
(adj.) destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; 'after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly' .
Edited by Dwight--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
Edited by Helen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Dead, defunct, extinct, inanimate.[2]. Torpid, sluggish, inert, dull, tame, spiritless, passive.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LIFE_and_DEAD]
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Examples
- How silent, how lifeless! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nor trust the seeming lifeless snake, Beware! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out on the air, like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He groped his way up, he entered the garret, he found Evadne stretched speechless, almost lifeless on her wretched bed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They are frequently called _Azoic_ (lifeless) Rocks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I was not the witness of his grief; for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It required some attention to hear him on account of his inward speaking and his lifeless manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She had recovered herself somewhat, but was mute and lifeless still. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Its high houses and narrow streets were lifeless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My revolvers were strapped to my lifeless body which, for some unfathomable reason, I could not bring myself to touch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Let them raise a mound above my lifeless body, which may stand even when the dome of St. Sophia has fallen. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The mountains were still as bare and lifeless as ever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Plants get their food from the lifeless matter which exists in the air and in the soil; while animals get their food from plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This dreadful accusation comes upon her like a new torment at his lifeless hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is impossible to conjecture the strange enchainment of events which restored the lifeless form of my friend to our hands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her slack hands fell lifeless by her side. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She is no angel, but a fair, regular-featured, taciturn-looking woman--rather too white and lifeless for my taste. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They laid them back on the lifeless breast,--dust to dust,--poor mournful relics of early dreams, which once made that cold heart beat so warmly! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Beside the lifeless form of your daughter, old man, I swore to live a life of revenge. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A benign though tardy Providence blurred my vision and my mind as I sank into unconsciousness across the lifeless body of my only son. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The third continued lifeless till sunset, when, losing all hopes of him, he was thrown away. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Her head was drooping upon her breast, to all appearances she was lifeless. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She went to work at this business in a singularly cool, deliberate manner, like some surgeon practising with his scalpel on a lifeless subject. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- While in the cake they are as lifeless as the seed; when placed in dough, or fruit juice, or grain water, they grow and multiply and cause fermentation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Their ladyships made three stately curtsies, and the elder lady to be sure gave her hand to the newcomer, but it was as cold and lifeless as marble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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