English dictionary
dead
adjectivePronunciation
dɛd
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- devoid of activity
adjective
- physically inactive
adjective
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
adjective
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
adjective
- drained of electric charge; discharged
adjective
- the complete stoppage of an action
adjective
- no longer having force or relevance
adjective
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
adjective
- lacking resilience or bounce
adjective
- not surviving in active use
adjective
- not circulating or flowing
adjective
- unerringly accurate
adjective
- not yielding a return
adjective
- lacking acoustic resonance
adjective
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
adjective
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
adjective
- very tired
adverb
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
adverb
- quickly and without warning
noun
- people who are no longer living
noun
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
Example sentences
this is a dead town: nothing ever happens here
Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
the nerve is dead
a dead pallor
he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Mars is a dead planet
dead soil
dead coals
the fire is dead
a dead battery
left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
came to a dead stop
a dead issue
a dead telephone line
the motor is dead
a dead tennis ball
Latin is a dead language
dead air
dead water
stagnant water
a dead shot
took dead aim
dead capital
idle funds
dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
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
passersby were dead to our plea for help
numb to the cries for mercy
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
an absolutely magnificent painting
a perfectly idiotic idea
you're perfectly right
utterly miserable
you can be dead sure of my innocence
he stopped suddenly
suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side
he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment
he made up his mind suddenly
they buried the dead
the dead of winter