Dead

More definitions of "dead":

• (noun): A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.
  Example: "The dead of winter"

• (adj): Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.
  Example: "A dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

• (adj): Lacking acoustic resonance.
  Example: "Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

• (adj): Very tired.
  Example: "I'm dead after that long trip"
  Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed

• (adj): No longer having force or relevance.
  Example: "A dead issue"

• (adj): Not surviving in active use.
  Example: "Latin is a dead language"

• (adv): Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.
  Example: "You can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
  Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly

• (adj): No longer in force or use; inactive.
  Synonyms: defunct

• (adj): Total.
  Example: "Dead silence"
  Synonyms: utter

• (adj): Devoid of physical sensation; numb.
  Example: "His gums were dead from the novocain"
  Synonyms: deadened

• (adj): No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
  Example: "The nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

• (adj): Not circulating or flowing.
  Example: "Dead air"; "dead water"
  Synonyms: stagnant

• (adj): Physically inactive.
  Example: "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

• (adj): Unerringly accurate.
  Example: "A dead shot"; "took dead aim"

• (noun): People who are no longer living.
  Example: "They buried the dead"

• (adj): Not yielding a return.
  Example: "Dead capital"
  Synonyms: idle

• (adj): Lacking animation or excitement or activity.
  Example: "The party being dead we left early"
  Synonyms: lifeless

• (adj): Sudden and complete.
  Example: "Came to a dead stop"

• (adj): (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.
  Example: "Passersby were dead to our plea for help"
  Synonyms: numb

• (adj): Lacking resilience or bounce.
  Example: "A dead tennis ball"

• (adj): Not endowed with life.
  Example: "Dead stones"
  Synonyms: inanimate, nonliving

• (adj): Drained of electric charge; discharged.
  Example: "A dead battery"
  Synonyms: drained

• (adj): Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat.
  Example: "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

• (adv): Quickly and without warning.
  Synonyms: abruptly, suddenly, short

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!

Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze,
And hide the shame!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their swords.
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)