Dead

//dɛd//

Synonyms for "dead" (736 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (148)

abruptly all in cold complete deadened deathlike deceased defunct drained exanimate extinct fallen inactive insensitive late lifeless perfectly precise stagnant stillborn

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a outrance abeyant abrupt absolute absolutely accurate achromatic achromic ago all bets off all gone all off all out all over all up all-out anechoic anemic anesthetized annihilated antiquated antique apathetic arid as the crow flies ashen ashes ashy asleep asleep in jesus assassinated at an end at peace at rest awful silence barren bated beat beat up beaten beige belowground benumbed bereft of life beyond all bounds beyond compare beyond comparison beyond measure blah bland blank blase bleak bled white blind blind-alley bloodless bloody blown over body bone-weary bones bored boring brain dead breathless broke buried bushed by bygone bypast cadaver cadaverous called home callous calm canceled carcass carrion casualty cataleptic catatonic categorical categorically cecal certain characterless chloranemic choked choked off clay closed collapsing colorless comatose commonplace completely concluded constricted contracted cool corpse corpselike corpus delicti crack croaked crowbait damned damped dampened dated dead ahead

Adverb(3 words)

abruptly absolutely all of a sudden

Adjective(3 words)

all in beat bushed

Adjective(5 words)

asleep at rest cadaverous clay-cold crying

Verb(4 words)

assassinate baptize cancel dash

Strong matches (220)

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deathly pale debilitated decedent decided deep deep asleep definitely deleted demised departed departed this life depths destitute of life dilute diluted dim dimmed dingy direct directly discolored dismal disused dog tired dog-tired dog-weary done done for done in done up done with doomed doped dopey dormant down the drain downright drab draggy drearisome dreary droopy drugged dry dry bones dryasdust due due north dull dulled dun dust dusty earth effete elapsed elephantine embalmed corpse emotionless empty ended enervated entire entirely essentially etiolated even exact exactly examine executed exhausted expired expressionless expressly expunged exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous exsanguinous extinguished extreme extremely fade faded fagged fagged out faint faithfully fallow fast asleep fatigued fini finished flaked-out flat flat out flavorless food for worms forgotten forthright foul frigid full fundamentally ghastly golden silence gone gone by gone glimmering gone out gone to glory gone west gone-by gray grey groggy gruelly had it haggard half-conscious hardened has been has-been heavy hebetudinous ho hum ho-hum hollow hueless hush hush of night hypochromic immeasurably impassible imperceptive impercipient impervious in a beeline in abeyance in all respects in every respect in line in line with in suspense in the extreme inane inanimate inaudibility incalculably indefinitely indifferent inelastic inert inexcitable infertile infinitely inoperative inorganic insensate insensible insentient insipid inured ipsissimis verbis irrecoverable jaded jejune just kaput kaputt knocked out lackadaisical

Adjective(3 words)

deadened drained idle

Adjective(12 words)

deceased decomposed defunct departed expired extinct fey gone good inanimate inert kaput

Noun(2 words)

deceased departed

Verb(9 words)

do do for do in duppy ex grease iron out kill knock off

Slang(1 words)

i'm dead

Related words (368)

lackluster languid languorous lapsed late lamented latent launched into eternity leaden lethargic listless literally literatim livid logy lost low spirited low-spirited lucid stillness lukewarm lull

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lumpish lurid lusterless martyred mat mealy mechanical middle midst mild milk-and-water monotonous moribund mortal remains most motionless muddy muffled mum mummification mummy murdered muted narcotized needy neutral nirvanic no more noiselessness noncurrent nonviable numb numbed obdurate oblivious obsolete obtuse ordinary organic remains out out cold out of it out of play out of style out of use out-and-out outmoded outright outworn over pale pale as death pale-faced pallid pappy passe passed passed away passed on passive past pasty peace pedestrian pepless perfect perfected perished phlegmatic played out plodding plumb point blank point-blank pointless poky ponderous pooped pooped out positively precisely profound prosaic prostrate pulpy pulseless purely pushing up daisies quiescence quiet quietness quietude radically ready to drop released relics reliquiae remains reposing rest resting easy right rigid rigidly rigorously run out run-of-the-mill sainted sallow sapless sated savorless sedentary semiconscious senseless set at rest settled shot shut sickly silence silentness skeleton slack slain sleeping sleepy slow sluggish slumbering smitten with death smoldering smothered softened sol solemn solemn silence somber somnolent sordo sound asleep soundlessness spaced out spent spiceless spiritless square squarely squeezed shut stagnating stale standing static sterile stiff stifled still stillness stodgy stone dead stoned stony straight straight across straight ahead straightforward straightforwards straightly strangulated strictly strung out stuffy stultified subdued sudden suddenly superficial superseded supine sure suspended tacitness taciturnity taken away taken off tallow-faced tame tasteless tedious tenement of clay terminated the dead the deceased the defunct the departed the great majority the loved one the majority thick skinned thick witted thick-skinned thick-witted thin thorough thoroughly through through and through through with time tired tired out tired to death tiresome to the letter tomblike silence toneless torpid total totally tranquillity tuckered out two-dimensional unanimated unaroused unbroken uncolored unconcerned unconditionally unconscious undeviatingly unemotional unequivocally unerring unerringly unfeeling unfelt unflavored unfruitful uninterested uninteresting unlively unmitigated unmoving unopen unopened unperceptive unproductive unprofitable unqualified unrelieved unresponsive unreverberant unsavory unswervingly unsympathetic unveeringly unvented unventilated used up utter utterly vanished vapid vegetable vegetative verbally verbatim verbatim et litteratim wan washed out washed up washed-out washed-up washy watered watered down watered-down watery waxen weak weary weary unto death whacked whey-faced whisht white wiped out wishy washy wishy-washy with a vengeance with the lord with the saints without life without vital functions wooden word by word word for word world-weary worn out worn-out wound up zapped zonked zonked out

Adjective(22 words)

late lifeless living impaired lmao low mul:💀mul:😭no longer with us no more nonlive perished reposing resting rip rofl six feet deep six feet under stiff unalive wasted

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whilom with god

Verb(11 words)

liquidate mortify pop off rub out slay snuff out stop someone's clock take top wax wet

Noun(3 words)

nadir pins and needles worm food

Adjective(2 words)

numb stagnant

Adverb(6 words)

of a sudden on the spur of the moment perfectly short suddenly utterly

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

17 relation types

More general

2 entries

people time

Antonyms

7 entries

alive life live living

Synonyms

7 entries

abruptly all in deadened deceased drained perfectly stagnant

Related terms

77 entries

(to be) at peace (to be) at the end of the road (to be) belly up (to be) bereft of life (to be) brown bread (to be) checked out (to be) dead and gone (to be) dead as a dodo (to be) dead as a doorknob (to be) dead as a doornail (to be) dead as a duck (to be) dead as a haddock (to be) dead as a hammer (to be) dead as a herring (to be) dead as a mackerel (to be) dead as a nit

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at location

1 entries

war

capable of

1 entries

mean no longer alive

coordinate

6 entries

AA AD EAD ECM EW SEAD

dbpedia genre

1 entries

psychedelic rock

defined as

1 entries

opposite of alive

derived

330 entries

Dead Sea Deadhead Deadwood Queen Anne's dead alveolar dead space anatomic dead space beat a dead horse better dead than red better to be late than be dead on time bottom dead center brain dead brain-dead braindead card-dead civilly dead clinically dead

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distinct from

6 entries

alive being breathing live living working

has context

10 entries

1800s baseball degree engineering golf hyperbole legal slang sports uk

has subevent

2 entries

halt circulation will never alive afterwards

is a

3 entries

album people time

related to

96 entries

absolutely abstract adjective after after life after living alive being being deceased being dying body broken coffin coffins coldness completely

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similar

77 entries

asleep assassinated at peace at rest bloodless brain dead breathless cold complete d.o.a.deathlike

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slang related

2 entries

lol sending me

Translations

342 translations across 139 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

dood adj (no longer alive)

Ainu

1 entries

チ adj (no longer alive)

Albanian

3 entries

mbetur adj (fully and completely motionless)
nëndhe adj (figuratively, not alive)
vdekur adj (no longer alive)

Aleut

1 entries

asxaanax adj (no longer alive)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

νεκρός adj (no longer alive)

Arabic

2 entries

ميت adj (no longer alive)
مَيِّت adj (no longer alive)

Armenian

1 entries

մեռած adj (no longer alive)

Aromanian

1 entries

mortu adj (no longer alive)

Asturian

1 entries

muertu adj (no longer alive)

Aymara

1 entries

jiwata adj (no longer alive)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

ölü adj (no longer alive)

Bashkir

2 entries

үлгән adj (no longer alive)
үле adj (no longer alive)

Belarusian

1 entries

мёртвы adj (no longer alive)

Bengali

3 entries

মুর্দা adj (no longer alive)
মুর্দা adj (idiomatic: hated)
মৃত adj (no longer alive)

Breton

1 entries

maro adj (no longer alive)

Bulgarian

4 entries

изгасен adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)
мъ́ртъв adj (no longer alive)
мъ́ртъв adj (figuratively, not alive)
неодушеве́н adj (without emotion)

Burmese

1 entries

သေ adj (no longer alive)

Catalan

2 entries

mort adj (no longer alive)
mort adj (sports: not in play)

Cebuano

1 entries

patay adj (no longer alive)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

مردوو adj (no longer alive)

Chamicuro

1 entries

kashele'taka adj (no longer alive)

Chechen

1 entries

делла adj (no longer alive)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᏲᎱᏒᎢ adj (no longer alive)

Chinese Cantonese

3 entries

到死 adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)
鬼咁 adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)
鬼死咁 adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

死的 adj (no longer alive)
完全地 adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)
絕對 /绝对 adv (exactly)
寂靜 /寂静 noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)

Church Slavic

1 entries

мрътвъ adj (no longer alive)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

ölü adj (no longer alive)

Czech

1 entries

mrtvý adj (no longer alive)

Dalmatian

1 entries

muart adj (no longer alive)

Danish

4 entries

død adj (no longer alive)
død adj (figuratively, not alive)
død adj (sports: not in play)
direkte adv (exactly)

Dutch

4 entries

dode adj (no longer alive)
dood adj (no longer alive)
gestorven adj (no longer alive)
overleden adj (no longer alive)

Esperanto

4 entries

morta adj (no longer alive)
ĝuste adv (exactly)
mezo noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)
mortintoj noun (those (dead people) who have died)

Estonian

1 entries

surnud adj (no longer alive)

Faroese

1 entries

deyður adj (no longer alive)

Finnish

4 entries

eloton adj (no longer alive)
eloton adj (devoid of living things, barren)
haaska adj (no longer alive)
jähmettynyt adj (fully and completely motionless)

Franco-Provençal

1 entries

môrt adj (no longer alive)

French

4 entries

mdr adj (texting or Internet slang: dying of laughter)
mort adj (no longer alive)
cœur noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)
milieu noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)

Friulian

1 entries

muart adj (no longer alive)

Galician

1 entries

morto adj (no longer alive)

Georgian

3 entries

გარდაცვლილი adj (no longer alive)
მიცვალებული adj (no longer alive)
მკვდარი adj (no longer alive)

German

4 entries

abgeschaltet adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)
aus adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)
aus adj (sports: not in play)
bewegungslos adj (fully and completely motionless)

Gheg Albanian

1 entries

shkum adj (no longer alive)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 adj (no longer alive)

Greek

4 entries

νεκρός adj (no longer alive)
πεθαμένος adj (no longer alive)
ψόφιος adj (no longer alive)
ακριβώς adv (exactly)

Greenlandic

1 entries

toqu adj (no longer alive)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

mò adj (no longer alive)

Hawaiian

1 entries

make adj (no longer alive)

Hebrew

1 entries

מֵת adj (no longer alive)

Higaonon

1 entries

namatay adj (no longer alive)

Hindi

4 entries

निर्जीव adj (no longer alive)
बंजर adj (devoid of living things, barren)
भावहीन adj (without emotion)
मरा हुआ adj (no longer alive)

Hungarian

4 entries

döglött adj (no longer alive)
elromlott adj (broken or inoperable)
halott adj (no longer alive)
halott adj (without emotion)

Icelandic

3 entries

dauður adj (no longer alive)
dáinn adj (no longer alive)
látinn adj (no longer alive)

Ido

1 entries

mortinta adj (no longer alive)

Indonesian

2 entries

mati adj (no longer alive)
meninggal adj (no longer alive)

Interlingua

1 entries

morte adj (no longer alive)

Inuktitut

1 entries

ᑐᖁ adj (no longer alive)

Irish

1 entries

marbh adj (no longer alive)

Italian

1 entries

morto adj (no longer alive)

Ivatan

1 entries

diman adj (no longer alive)

Japanese

4 entries

亡い adj (no longer alive)
亡い adj (figuratively, not alive)
壊れた adj (broken or inoperable)
死んだ adj (no longer alive)

Javanese

1 entries

mati adj (no longer alive)

Kapampangan

1 entries

mate adj (no longer alive)

Kazakh

1 entries

өлі adj (no longer alive)

Khmer

2 entries

ម្រឹត adj (no longer alive)
ស្លាប់ adj (no longer alive)

Korean

2 entries

죽었다 adj (no longer alive)
죽은 adj (no longer alive)

Kyrgyz

3 entries

өлгөн adj (no longer alive)
өлүк adj (no longer alive)
өлүү adj (no longer alive)

Ladino

3 entries

met adj (no longer alive)
muerto adj (no longer alive)
niftar adj (no longer alive)

Lao

1 entries

ຕາຍ adj (no longer alive)

Latin

1 entries

mortuus adj (no longer alive)

Latvian

2 entries

miris adj (no longer alive)
nedzīvs adj (no longer alive)

Limburgish

4 entries

doead adj (no longer alive)
doeaje adj (no longer alive)
kepót adj (no longer alive)
kepótte adj (no longer alive)

Lithuanian

2 entries

miręs adj (no longer alive)
negyvas adj (no longer alive)

Lombard

1 entries

mort adj (no longer alive)

Low German

1 entries

dood adj (no longer alive)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

martwy adj (no longer alive)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

dout adj (no longer alive)

Macedonian

3 entries

мртов adj (no longer alive)
пцовисан adj (no longer alive)
умрен adj (no longer alive)

Malay

1 entries

mati adj (no longer alive)

Manx

4 entries

marroo adj (no longer alive)
marroo adj (fully and completely motionless)
neuvio adj (figuratively, not alive)
doolaght noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)

Mongolian

2 entries

үхсэн adj (no longer alive)
ᠦᠬᠦᠭᠰᠡᠨ adj (no longer alive)

Mpade

1 entries

madɨ adj (no longer alive)

Neapolitan

1 entries

muorto adj (no longer alive)

Nepali

2 entries

मरेको adj (no longer alive)
मृत adj (no longer alive)

Norman

1 entries

mort adj (no longer alive)

Northern Sami

1 entries

jápmit adj (no longer alive)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

død adj (no longer alive)
død adj (sports: not in play)
død adj (experiencing pins and needles)
som sover adj (experiencing pins and needles)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

død adj (no longer alive)

Occitan

1 entries

mòrt adj (no longer alive)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

мьртвъ adj (no longer alive)

Old English

1 entries

dēad adj (no longer alive)

Old Spanish

1 entries

muerto adj (no longer alive)

Oromo

1 entries

du'aa adj (no longer alive)

Ossetian

1 entries

мард adj (no longer alive)

Pashto

1 entries

مړ adj (no longer alive)

Persian

2 entries

مرده adj (no longer alive)
مرده adj (idiomatic: hated)

Piedmontese

1 entries

mòrt adj (no longer alive)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

doot adj (no longer alive)

Polish

4 entries

martwy adj (no longer alive)
nieruchomy adj (fully and completely motionless)
nieżywy adj (no longer alive)
rozładowany adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)

Portuguese

3 entries

dormente adj (experiencing pins and needles)
morto adj (no longer alive)
morto adj (idiomatic: hated)

Romani

1 entries

mulo adj (no longer alive)

Romanian

1 entries

mort adj (no longer alive)

Romansch

2 entries

miert adj (no longer alive)
mort adj (no longer alive)

Russian

4 entries

безжи́зненный adj (without emotion)
до́хлый adj (no longer alive)
до́хлый adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)
мёртвый adj (no longer alive)

Sanskrit

1 entries

मृत adj (no longer alive)

Sardinian

2 entries

moltu adj (no longer alive)
mortu adj (no longer alive)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

marbh adj (no longer alive)
marbh noun (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

mr̀tav adj (no longer alive)
ȕmrlī adj (no longer alive)
мр̀тав adj (no longer alive)
у̏мрлӣ adj (no longer alive)

Sicilian

1 entries

mortu adj (no longer alive)

Sinhalese

1 entries

මළ adj (no longer alive)

Slovak

1 entries

mŕtvy adj (no longer alive)

Slovene

1 entries

mŕtev adj (no longer alive)

Southern Altai

2 entries

ӧлгӧн adj (no longer alive)
ӧлӱ adj (no longer alive)

Spanish

3 entries

muerto adj (no longer alive)
muerto adj (of a device: completely inactive; without power)
tilinte adj (no longer alive)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

dede adj (no longer alive)

Swedish

3 entries

död adj (no longer alive)
död adj (figuratively, not alive)
döds adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)

Tagalog

1 entries

patay adj (no longer alive)

Tajik

1 entries

мурда adj (no longer alive)

Tatar

2 entries

үле adj (no longer alive)
үлек adj (no longer alive)

Tausug

1 entries

patay adj (no longer alive)

Taíno

2 entries

operi'to adj (no longer alive)
operi'to adj (no longer alive)

Thai

2 entries

ตาย adj (no longer alive)
เสียชีวิต adj (no longer alive)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

dai adj (no longer alive)

Turkish

2 entries

ölmüş adj (no longer alive)
ölü adj (no longer alive)

Turkmen

1 entries

öli adj (no longer alive)

Tuvan

4 entries

ölgen adj (no longer alive)
шыпшың adj (no longer alive)
ыржым adj (no longer alive)
ээн adj (no longer alive)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ме́ртвий adj (no longer alive)

Upper Sorbian

2 entries

mortwy adj (no longer alive)
morwy adj (no longer alive)

Urdu

1 entries

مردہ adj (no longer alive)

Uyghur

1 entries

ئۆلۈك adj (no longer alive)

Uzbek

1 entries

oʻlik adj (no longer alive)

Venetan

1 entries

morto adj (no longer alive)

Vietnamese

1 entries

chết adj (no longer alive)

Walloon

4 entries

crevé adj (no longer alive)
moirt adj (no longer alive)
djusse adv (exactly)
fén adv (very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly)

Welsh

1 entries

marw adj (no longer alive)

West-Frisian

2 entries

dea adj (no longer alive)
deade adj (no longer alive)

Yiddish

1 entries

טויט adj (no longer alive)

Yucatec Maya

1 entries

kimen adj (no longer alive)

Yup'ik

1 entries

tuqu adj (no longer alive)

Zaghawa

1 entries

nî adj (no longer alive)

Sample sentences

87 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am dead after reading that thread.

Source: slang_seed

Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.

Source: tatoeba (1843)

It's a dead end.

Source: tatoeba (2176)

You must give him up for dead.

Source: tatoeba (15796)

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