dead
1. people who are no longer living (Freq. 9)
- they buried the dead
• Ant:
living
• Hypernyms:
people
• Hyponyms:
slain
• Member Meronyms:
dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense (Freq. 1)
- the dead of winter
• Hypernyms:
time
1. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life (Freq. 72)
- the nerve is dead
- a dead pallor
- he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
• Ant:
alive
• Similar to:
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,
late, exanimate, murdered, nonviable, slain,
stillborn, stone-dead
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
• Attrubites:
animation, life, living, aliveness, vitality
2. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life;
no longer exerting force or having energy or heat (Freq. 4)
- Mars is a dead planet
- dead soil
- dead coals
- the fire is dead
• Ant:
live
• Similar to:
extinct, out, lifeless, out of play
• See Also:
extinct
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
3. very tired (Freq. 2)
- was all in at the end of the day
- so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
- bushed after all that exercise
- I'm dead after that long trip
• Syn:
all in, beat, bushed
• Similar to:
tired
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
4. unerringly accurate (Freq. 1)
- a dead shot
- took dead aim
• Similar to:
precise
5. physically inactive (Freq. 1)
- Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
• Similar to:
extinct
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
6. (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive
- passersby were dead to our plea for help
- numb to the cries for mercy
• Syn:
numb
• Similar to:
insensitive
• Derivationally related forms:
numbness (for: numb), deadness
7. 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
• Syn:
deadened
• Similar to:
insensitive
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
8. lacking acoustic resonance
- dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
- the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
• Similar to:
unreverberant, nonresonant
9. not yielding a return
- dead capital
- idle funds
• Syn:
idle
• Similar to:
unprofitable
10. not circulating or flowing
- dead air
- dead water
- stagnant water
• Syn:
stagnant
• Similar to:
standing
• Derivationally related forms:
stagnancy (for: stagnant), stagnate (for: stagnant), deadness
11. not surviving in active use
- Latin is a dead language
• Similar to:
extinct, nonextant
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
12. lacking resilience or bounce
- a dead tennis ball
• Similar to:
inelastic
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
13. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- a dead telephone line
- the motor is dead
• Similar to:
inoperative
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
14. no longer having force or relevance
- a dead issue
• Similar to:
noncurrent
15. complete
- came to a dead stop
- utter seriousness
• Syn:
utter
• Similar to:
complete
16. drained of electric charge;
discharged
- a dead battery
- left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
• Syn:
drained
• Similar to:
uncharged
• Derivationally related forms:
deadness
17. devoid of activity
- this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
• Similar to:
inactive
1. quickly and without warning
- he stopped suddenly
• Syn:
abruptly, suddenly, short
• Derived from adjective:
sudden (for: suddenly), abrupt (for: abruptly)
2. 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
• Syn:
absolutely, perfectly, utterly
• Derived from adjective:
utter (for: utterly), perfect (for: perfectly), absolute (for: absolutely)
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