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Sounds | deh'd |
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Rhymes | abed, aforesaid, ahead, and 86 more rhymes in ehd at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life. |
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Examples | "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" |
Attribute of | animation, vitality; animation, life, living, aliveness |
Similar | asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone; assassinated; bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous; brain dead; breathless, inanimate, pulseless; cold; d.o.a.; deathlike, deathly; defunct; doomed; executed; fallen; late; lifeless, exanimate; murdered; nonviable; slain; stillborn; stone-dead |
Contrary | alive |
Meaning | Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life. No longer exerting force or having energy or heat. |
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Examples | "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" |
Similar | barren; extinct, out; lifeless; out of play |
Contrary | live |
Adverbs | deadly |
Meaning | Very tired. |
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Examples | "I'm dead after that long trip" |
Synonyms | all in, beat, bushed |
Similar to | tired |
Usage | colloquialism |
Meaning | Unerringly accurate. |
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Examples | "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" |
Similar to | precise |
Meaning | Physically inactive. |
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Examples | "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" |
Similar to | extinct, inactive |
Meaning | Total. |
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Examples | "dead silence" |
Synonyms | utter |
Similar to | absolute |
Meaning | Not endowed with life. |
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Examples | "dead stones" |
Synonyms | inanimate, nonliving |
Attribute of | animateness, aliveness, liveness |
Similar | nonconscious |
Contrary | animate |
Meaning | (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity. Unresponsive. |
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Examples | "passersby were dead to our plea for help" |
Synonyms | numb |
Similar to | insensitive |
Meaning | Devoid of physical sensation. Numb. |
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Examples | "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" |
Synonyms | deadened |
Similar to | insensitive |
Meaning | Lacking acoustic resonance. |
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Examples | "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" |
Similar to | unreverberant, nonresonant |
Meaning | Not yielding a return. |
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Examples | "dead capital" |
Synonyms | idle |
Similar to | unprofitable |
Meaning | Not circulating or flowing. |
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Examples | "dead air"; "dead water" |
Synonyms | stagnant |
Similar to | standing |
Meaning | Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown. |
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Examples | "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" |
Similar to | malfunctioning, nonfunctional |
Meaning | Not surviving in active use. |
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Examples | "Latin is a dead language" |
Similar to | extinct, nonextant |
Meaning | Lacking resilience or bounce. |
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Examples | "a dead tennis ball" |
Similar to | inelastic |
Meaning | No longer in force or use. Inactive. |
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Examples | "a defunct (or dead) law" |
Synonyms | defunct |
Similar to | inoperative |
Meaning | No longer having force or relevance. |
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Examples | "a dead issue" |
Similar to | noncurrent |
Meaning | Sudden and complete. |
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Examples | "came to a dead stop" |
Similar to | complete |
Meaning | Drained of electric charge. Discharged. |
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Examples | "a dead battery" |
Synonyms | drained |
Similar to | uncharged |
Meaning | Lacking animation or excitement or activity. |
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Examples | "the party being dead we left early" |
Synonyms | lifeless |
Similar to | unanimated |
Meaning | Devoid of activity. |
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Examples | "this is a dead town |
Similar to | inactive |
Meaning | People who are no longer living. |
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Examples | "they buried the dead" |
Members | dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed |
Narrower | slain |
Broader | people |
Contrary | living |
Meaning | A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense. |
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Examples | "the dead of winter" |
Broader | time |
Meaning | Quickly and without warning. |
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Synonyms | abruptly, suddenly, short |
Meaning | Completely and without qualification. Used informally as intensifiers. |
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Examples | "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" |
Synonyms | absolutely, perfectly, utterly |