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Definition of Dead
- people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
- devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
- physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
- not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
- lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
- drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
- no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
- no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
- lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
- not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
- unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
- not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
- lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
- 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"
- 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"
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
Hyponyms: slain
Pertainyms: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a), sudden, abrupt
Attributes: animation, life, living, aliveness, vitality, animateness, liveness
Anagrams: Edda, edda
| Language Translations: | |||
| Albanian: vdekur | Breton: maro | ||
| Catalan: mort | Croatian: mrtav | ||
| Danish: død | Dutch: dood | ||
| Finnish: kuollut | French: mort | ||
| Frisian: dea | German: tot | ||
| Greek: νεκρός | Hebrew: מת | ||
| Hungarian: halott | Icelandic: dauður | ||
| Indonesian: mati | Interlingua: morte | ||
| Italian: morto | Japanese: 死んだ | ||
| Latin: mortuus | Polish: martwy | ||
| Portuguese: morto | Romanian: mort | ||
| Russian: мертвый | Slovak: mŕtvy | ||
| Slovene: mrtev | Spanish: muerto | ||
| Swedish: död | |||
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