Dead

More definitions of "dead":

• (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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (adj): No longer in force or use; inactive.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

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

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

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

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

• (adj): Devoid of activity.
  Example: "This is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

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

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

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

• (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"

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“And at his heart there may have gnawed
Sick memories of a dead faith foiled and flawed”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)