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- 1 No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.) not-comparable, usually
"All of my grandparents are dead."
- 2 Devoid of living things; barren. not-comparable, usually
"a dead planet"
- 3 Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. excessive, not-comparable, usually
"When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room."
- 4 Utterly exhausted. not-comparable, usually
"“Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”"
- 5 So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized. not-comparable, usually
"He is dead to me."
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- 6 Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead. not-comparable, usually
""You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!""
- 7 Without emotion; impassive. not-comparable, usually
"She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea."
- 8 Stationary; static; immobile or immovable. not-comparable, usually
"the dead load on the floor"
- 9 Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. not-comparable, usually
"dead air"
- 10 Unproductive; fallow. not-comparable, usually
"dead time"
- 11 Past, bygone, vanished. not-comparable, usually
"Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old, dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things."
- 12 Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people. not-comparable, usually
"For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant."
- 13 Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live. not-comparable, usually
"OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire."
- 14 Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty. not-comparable, usually
- 15 Broken or inoperable. not-comparable, usually
"That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up."
- 16 No longer used or required. not-comparable, usually
"There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched."
- 17 Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power. not-comparable, usually
"the dead spindle of a lathe"
- 18 Not in play. not-comparable, usually
"Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead."
- 19 Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. not-comparable, usually
- 20 Tagged out. not-comparable, slang, usually
- 21 Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life). not-comparable, usually
"dead stop"
- 22 Exact; on the dot. not-comparable, usually
"dead center"
- 23 Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). not-comparable, usually
"After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead."
- 24 Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:; Dying of laughter. Internet, excessive, not-comparable, often, sometimes, usually
"Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭"
- 25 Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:; Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc. Internet, not-comparable, often, sometimes, usually
- 26 Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic. not-comparable, usually
"a dead floor"
- 27 Bringing death; deadly. not-comparable, obsolete, usually
"You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear."
- 28 Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. not-comparable, usually
"A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead."
- 29 Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc). especially, not-comparable, often, rare, usually
"He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God."
- 30 Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly. not-comparable, usually
"[…] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long."
- 1 devoid of activity wordnet
- 2 physically inactive wordnet
- 3 no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life wordnet
- 4 not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat wordnet
- 5 drained of electric charge; discharged wordnet
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- 6 the complete stoppage of an action wordnet
- 7 no longer having force or relevance wordnet
- 8 out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown wordnet
- 9 lacking resilience or bounce wordnet
- 10 not surviving in active use wordnet
- 11 not circulating or flowing wordnet
- 12 unerringly accurate wordnet
- 13 not yielding a return wordnet
- 14 lacking acoustic resonance wordnet
- 15 devoid of physical sensation; numb wordnet
- 16 (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive wordnet
- 17 very tired wordnet
- 1 Exactly. colloquial, informal, not-comparable
"dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left"
- 2 Very, absolutely, extremely. colloquial, informal, not-comparable
"dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty"
- 3 Suddenly and completely. not-comparable
"He stopped dead."
- 4 As if dead. informal, not-comparable
"dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still"
- 1 completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers wordnet
- 2 quickly and without warning wordnet
- 3 happening unexpectedly wordnet
- 4 on impulse; without premeditation wordnet
- 1 Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. often, uncountable, with-definite-article
"Near-synonym: nadir"
- 2 (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings. UK
- 3 Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 4 people who are no longer living wordnet
- 5 Those who have died: dead people. uncountable, with-definite-article
"the quick and the dead"
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- 6 Clipping of deadlift. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
- 7 Acronym of destruction of enemy air defense(s). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 8 a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense wordnet
- 1 Laughing very hard (hyperbolic). slang, internet, 2010s-2020s
"I am dead after reading that thread."
- 1 To prevent by disabling; to stop. transitive
"1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth. “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”"
- 2 To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. transitive
"Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me."
- 3 To kill. UK, US, slang, transitive
"I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses"
- 4 To discontinue or put an end to (something). broadly, slang, transitive
""I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off.""
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
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