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dead

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substantiv
people who are no longer living
"they buried the dead"

substantiv
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
"the dead of winter"

adjectiv
devoid of activity
"this is a dead town
nothing ever happens here"

adjectiv
physically inactive
"Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

adjectiv
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"

adjectiv
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"

adjectiv
not endowed with life
"the inorganic world is inanimate"
"inanimate objects"
"dead stones"

adjectiv
lacking animation or excitement or activity
"the party being dead we left early"
"it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

adjectiv
drained of electric charge
discharged
"a dead battery"
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

adjectiv
no longer having force or relevance
"a dead issue"

adjectiv
no longer in force or use
inactive
"a defunct (or dead) law"
"a defunct organization"

adjectiv
lacking resilience or bounce
"a dead tennis ball"

adjectiv
not surviving in active use
"Latin is a dead language"

adjectiv
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
"a dead telephone line"
"the motor is dead"

adjectiv
unerringly accurate
"a dead shot"
"took dead aim"

adjectiv
not yielding a return
"dead capital"
"idle funds"

adjectiv
lacking acoustic resonance
"dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"
"the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

adjectiv
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"

adverb
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"

adverb
quickly and without warning
"he stopped suddenly"




Antonime:
(adjectiv) animate, live
(substantiv) living



Sinonime:
(adjectiv) inanimate
(adverb) abruptly, absolutely, perfectly, short, suddenly, utterly
(adjectiv) defunct, idle, lifeless