Synonyms: dead
Definition: people who are no longer living
Usage: they buried the dead
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: dead
Definition: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
Usage: the dead of winter
Similar words: time
Definition: an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
Usage: he waited a long time; the time of year for planting; he was a great actor in his time
Synonyms: dead
Definition: devoid of activity
Usage: this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
Similar words: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery
Synonyms: dead
Definition: physically inactive
Usage: Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
Synonyms: dead
Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Usage: the nerve is dead; a dead pallor; he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Similar words: deceased, departed, gone, asleep, at peace, at rest
Definition: dead
Usage: he is deceased; our dear departed friend
Similar words: assassinated
Definition: murdered by surprise attack for political reasons
Usage: the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders
Similar words: exsanguine, exsanguinous, bloodless
Definition: destitute of blood or apparently so
Usage: the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold- John Dryden
Similar words: brain dead
Definition: having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram
Usage: was declared brain dead
Similar words: breathless, pulseless, inanimate
Definition: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Usage: an inanimate body; pulseless and dead
Similar words: cold
Definition: lacking the warmth of life
Usage: cold in his grave
Similar words: d.o.a.
Definition: abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room
Similar words: deathlike, deathly
Definition: having the physical appearance of death
Usage: a deathly pallor
Similar words: defunct
Definition: having ceased to exist or live
Usage: the will of a defunct aunt; a defunct Indian tribe
Similar words: doomed
Definition: marked for certain death
Usage: the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed
Similar words: executed
Definition: put to death as punishment
Usage: claimed the body of the executed traitor
Similar words: fallen
Definition: killed in battle
Usage: to honor fallen soldiers
Similar words: late
Definition: having died recently
Usage: her late husband
Similar words: lifeless, exanimate
Definition: deprived of life; no longer living
Usage: a lifeless body
Similar words: murdered
Definition: killed unlawfully
Usage: the murdered woman; lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier
Similar words: nonviable
Definition: not capable of living or developing successfully
Similar words: slain
Definition: killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
Usage: a picture of St. George and the slain dragon
Similar words: stillborn
Definition: (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn
Usage: a stillborn baby
Similar words: stone-dead
Definition: as lifeless as a stone
Synonyms: dead
Definition: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
Usage: Mars is a dead planet; dead soil; dead coals; the fire is dead
Definition: being out or having grown cold
Usage: threw his extinct cigarette into the stream; the fire is out
Similar words: lifeless
Definition: not having the capacity to support life
Usage: a lifeless planet
Similar words: out of play
Definition: (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"
Definition: drained of electric charge; discharged
Usage: a dead battery; left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
Similar words: uncharged
Definition: of a particle or body or system; having no charge
Usage: an uncharged particle; an uncharged battery
Definition: complete
Usage: came to a dead stop; utter seriousness
Similar words: complete
Definition: having every necessary or normal part or component or step
Usage: a complete meal; a complete wardrobe; a complete set of the Britannica; a complete set of china; a complete defeat; a complete accounting
Synonyms: dead
Definition: no longer having force or relevance
Usage: a dead issue
Similar words: noncurrent
Definition: not current or belonging to the present time
Synonyms: dead
Definition: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
Usage: a dead telephone line; the motor is dead
Synonyms: dead
Definition: lacking resilience or bounce
Usage: a dead tennis ball
Similar words: inelastic
Definition: not elastic
Usage: economists speak of an inelastic price structure
Synonyms: dead
Definition: not surviving in active use
Usage: Latin is a dead language
Similar words: extinct, nonextant
Definition: no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
Usage: an extinct species of fish; an extinct royal family; extinct laws and customs
Definition: not circulating or flowing
Usage: dead air; dead water; stagnant water
Similar words: standing
Definition: (of fluids) not moving or flowing
Usage: mosquitoes breed in standing water
Synonyms: dead
Definition: unerringly accurate
Usage: a dead shot; took dead aim
Similar words: precise
Definition: sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Usage: a precise mind; specified a precise amount; arrived at the precise moment
Definition: not yielding a return
Usage: dead capital; idle funds
Similar words: unprofitable
Definition: producing little or no profit or gain
Usage: deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable
Synonyms: dead
Definition: lacking acoustic resonance
Usage: dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs; the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
Similar words: unreverberant, nonresonant
Definition: not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
Definition: devoid of physical sensation; numb
Usage: 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
Similar words: insensitive
Definition: not responsive to physical stimuli
Usage: insensitive to radiation
Definition: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
Usage: passersby were dead to our plea for help; numb to the cries for mercy
Similar words: insensitive
Definition: deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
Usage: insensitive to the needs of the patients
Synonyms: bushed, all in, beat, dead
Definition: very tired
Usage: 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
Similar words: tired
Definition: depleted of strength or energy
Usage: tired mothers with crying babies; too tired to eat