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Noun, Adjective, Adverb

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dead has 2 senses

Adverbial dead has 2 senses

Adjective dead has 17 senses

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dead, adj., adv., & n.
--adj.
1 no longer alive.
2 colloq. extremely tired or unwell.
3 benumbed; affected by loss of sensation (my fingers are dead).
4 (foll. by to) unappreciative or unconscious of; insensitive to.
5 no longer effective or in use; obsolete, extinct.
6 (of a match, of coal, etc.) no longer burning; extinguished.
7 inanimate.
8 a lacking force or vigour; dull, lustreless, muffled. b (of sound) not resonant. c (of sparkling wine etc.) no longer effervescent.
9 a quiet; lacking activity (the dead season). b motionless, idle.
10 a (of a microphone, telephone, etc.) not transmitting any sound, esp. because of a fault. b (of a circuit, conductor, etc.) carrying or transmitting no current; not connected to a source of electricity (a dead battery).
11 (of the ball in a game) out of play.
12 abrupt, complete, exact, unqualified, unrelieved (come to a dead stop; a dead faint; a dead calm; in dead silence; a dead certainty).
13 without spiritual life.
--adv.
1 absolutely, exactly, completely (dead on target; dead level; dead tired).
2 colloq. very, extremely (dead good; dead easy).
--n. (prec. by the)
1 (treated as pl.) those who have died.
2 a time of silence or inactivity (the dead of night).

Idiom
dead-and-alive Brit. (of a place, person, activity, etc.) dull, monotonous; lacking interest. dead as the dodo see DODO. dead as a doornail see DOORNAIL. dead bat Cricket a bat held loosely so that it imparts no motion to the ball when struck. dead beat
1 colloq. exhausted.
2 Physics (of an instrument) without recoil.
dead-beat n.
1 colloq. a penniless person.
2 US sl. a person constantly in debt.
dead centre
1 the exact centre.
2 the position of a crank etc. in line with the connecting-rod and not exerting torque. dead cert see CERT. dead duck sl. an unsuccessful or useless person or thing.
dead end
1 a closed end of a road, passage, etc.
2 (often (with hyphen) attrib.) a situation offering no prospects of progress or advancement. dead-eye Naut. a round flat three-holed block for extending shrouds. dead from the neck up colloq. stupid. dead hand an oppressive persisting influence, esp. posthumous control.
dead heat
1 a race in which two or more competitors finish exactly level.
2 the result of such a race. dead-heat v.intr. run a dead heat. dead language a language no longer commonly spoken, e.g. Latin. dead letter a law or practice no longer observed or recognized. dead lift the exertion of one's utmost strength to lift something.
dead loss
1 colloq. a useless person or thing.
2 a complete loss.
dead man's fingers
1 a kind of orchis, Orchis mascula.
2 any soft coral of the genus Alcyonium, with spongy lobes.
3 the finger-like divisions of a lobster's or crab's gills. dead man's handle (or pedal etc.) a controlling-device on an electric train, allowing power to be connected only as long as the operator presses on it. dead march a funeral march. dead men colloq. bottles after the contents have been drunk. dead-nettle any plant of the genus Lamium, having nettle-like leaves but without stinging hairs. dead-on exactly right. dead reckoning Naut. calculation of a ship's position from the log, compass, etc., when observations are impossible. dead ringer see RINGER. dead shot one who is extremely accurate. dead time Physics the period after the recording of a pulse etc. when the detector is unable to record another. dead to the world colloq. fast asleep; unconscious.
dead weight (or dead-weight)
1 a an inert mass. b a heavy weight or burden.
2 a debt not covered by assets.
3 the total weight carried on a ship. dead wood colloq. one or more useless people or things. make a dead set at see SET(2). wouldn't be seen dead in (or with etc.) colloq. shall have nothing to do with; shall refuse to wear etc.
Derivative
deadness n.
Etymology
OE dead f. Gmc, rel. to DIE(1)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

dead

adj.


Done with the work of breathing; done
With all the world; the mad race run
Though to the end; the golden goal
Attained and found to be a hole!
Squatol Johnes

THESAURUS

dead

SOL, a outrance, abeyant, abrupt, abruptly, absolute, absolutely, accurate, achromatic, achromic, ago, all bets off, all gone, all in, all off, all out, all over, all up, all-out, anechoic, anemic, anesthetized, annihilated, antiquated, antique, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashes, ashy, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at an end, 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, breathless, buried, bushed, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, cadaverous, called home, callous, calm, canceled, carcass, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, cecal, certain, characterless, chloranemic, choked, choked off, clay, closed, cold, collapsing, colorless, comatose, commonplace, complete, completely, concluded, constricted, contracted, cool, corpse, corpselike, corpus delicti, crack, croaked, crowbait, damned, damped, dampened, dated, dead ahead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead asleep, dead body, dead man, dead of night, dead person, dead-and-alive, dead-end, dead-tired, deadbeat, deadened, deadly, deadly pale, death-struck, deathful, deathlike, deathlike silence, deathly, deathly pale, debilitated, deceased, decedent, decided, deep, deep asleep, definitely, defunct, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, depths, destitute of life, dilute, diluted, dim, dimmed, dingy, direct, directly, discolored, dismal, disused, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, done with, doped, dopey, dormant, down the drain, downright, drab, draggy, drained, 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, exanimate, exhausted, expired, expressly, expunged, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extinct, extinguished, extreme, extremely, fade, faded, fagged out, faint, faithfully, fallen, 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 glimmering, gone out, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, gray, grey, groggy, gruelly, had it, haggard, half-conscious, hardened, has-been, heavy, hebetudinous, 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 with, in suspense, in the extreme, inactive, inane, inanimate, inaudibility, incalculably, indefinitely, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, infertile, infinitely, inorganic, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, inured, ipsissimis verbis, irrecoverable, jaded, jejune, just, kaput, kaputt, knocked out, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, lapsed, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, literally, literatim, livid, logy, lost, low-spirited, lucid stillness, lukewarm, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, martyred, mat, mealy, middle, midst, mild, milk-and-water, monotonous, moribund, mortal remains, most, motionless, muddy, muffled, mum, mummification, mummy, muted, narcotized, neutral, nirvanic, no more, noiselessness, numb, numbed, obdurate, oblivious, obsolete, obtuse, ordinary, organic remains, out, out cold, out of it, 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, perfect, perfected, perfectly, perished, phlegmatic, played out, plodding, plumb, point-blank, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, pooped out, positively, precise, precisely, profound, prosaic, prostrate, pulpy, 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, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, smothered, softened, solemn, solemn silence, somber, somnolent, sordo, sound asleep, soundlessness, spaced out, spent, spiceless, spiritless, square, squarely, squeezed shut, stagnant, stagnating, stale, standing, static, sterile, stiff, stifled, still, stillborn, stillness, stodgy, 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, thin, thorough, thoroughly, through, through and through, through with, 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, unqualified, unrelieved, unresponsive, unsavory, unswervingly, unsympathetic, unveeringly, unvented, unventilated, used up, utter, utterly, vanished, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, wan, washed up, washed-out, washed-up, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak, weary, weary unto death, whacked, whey-faced, whisht, white, wiped out, 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

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Completeness

N completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency, complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious, completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as a as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, false in one thing, false in everything, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Physical Inertness

N physical inertness, inertness, dullness, inertia, vis inertiae, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor, quiescence, latency, inaction, passivity, mental inertness, sloth, inexcitability, irresolution, obstinacy, permanence, rare gas, paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity, inert, inactive, passive, torpid, sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt, unreactive, lifeless, dead, uninfluential, latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted, inactively, in suspense, in abeyance.

Death

N death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Nonresonance

N nonresonance, thud, thump, dead sound, nonresonance, muffled drums, cracked bell, damper, silencer, nonresonant, dead, dampened, muffled.

Achromatism

N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.

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