dead (d d)adj. dead·er, dead·est 1. Having lost life; no longer alive. 2. Marked for certain death; doomed: was marked as a dead man by the assassin. 3. a. Having the physical appearance of death: a dead pallor. b. Lacking feeling or sensitivity; numb or unresponsive: Passersby were dead to our pleas for help. c. Weary and worn-out; exhausted. 4. a. Not having the capacity to live; inanimate or inert. b. Not having the capacity to produce or sustain life; barren: dead soil. 5. a. No longer in existence, use, or operation. b. No longer having significance or relevance. c. Physically inactive; dormant: a dead volcano. 6. a. Not commercially productive; idle: dead capital. b. Not circulating or running; stagnant: dead water; dead air. 7. a. Devoid of human or vehicular activity; quiet: a dead town. b. Lacking all animation, excitement, or activity; dull: The party being dead, we left early. 8. Having no resonance. Used of sounds: "One characteristic of compact discs we all can hear is dead sound. It may be pure but it has no life" Musical Heritage Review. 9. Having grown cold; having been extinguished: dead coals; a dead flame. 10. Lacking elasticity or bounce: That tennis ball is dead. 11. Out of operation because of a fault or breakdown: The motor is dead. 12. a. Sudden; abrupt: a dead stop. b. Complete; utter: dead silence. c. Exact; unerring. the dead center of a target. 13. Sports Out of play. Used of a ball. 14. a. Lacking connection to a source of electric current. b. Drained of electric charge; discharged: a dead battery. n.1. One who has died: respect for the dead. 2. The period exhibiting the greatest degree of intensity: the dead of winter; the dead of night. adv.1. Absolutely; altogether: You can be dead sure of my innocence. 2. Directly; exactly: There's a gas station dead ahead. 3. Suddenly: She stopped dead on the stairway. Idioms: dead and buried No longer in use or under consideration: All past animosities are dead and buried now. dead in the water Unable to function or move: The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water. dead to rights In the very act of making an error or committing a crime: The police caught the thief dead to rights with my silverware.
[Middle English ded, from Old English d ad; see dheu-2 in Indo-European roots.]
dead ness n. Synonyms: dead, deceased, departed, extinct, lifeless, inanimate These adjectives all mean without life. Dead applies in general to whatever once had  but no longer has physical life ( a dead man; a dead leaf), function ( a dead battery), or force or currency ( a dead issue; a dead language). Deceased and departed refer only to nonliving humans: attended a memorial service for a recently deceased friend; looking at pictures of departed relatives. Extinct can refer to what has no living successors ( extinct species such as the dodo) or to what is extinguished or inactive ( an extinct volcano). Lifeless applies to what no longer has physical life ( a lifeless body), to what does not support life ( a lifeless planet), or to what lacks animation, spirit, or brightness ( a lifeless performance; lifeless colors). Inanimate is most often limited to what has never had physical life: "The anchored gunboat simply would not sink. It evinced that unnatural stubbornness which is sometimes displayed by inanimate objects" Stephen Crane. |
dead Adjective 1. no longer alive 2. no longer in use or finished: a dead language, a dead match 3. unresponsive 4. (of a limb) numb 5. complete or absolute: there was dead silence 6. Informal very tired 7. (of a place) lacking activity 8. Electronics a. drained of electric charge b. not connected to a source of electric charge 9. Sport (of a ball) out of play 10. dead from the neck up Informal stupid 11. dead to the world Informal fast asleep Noun a period during which coldness or darkness is most intense: the dead of winter Adverb 1. Informal extremely: dead easy 2. suddenly and abruptly: stop dead 3. dead on exactly right [Old English dēad]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. |  dead - people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" slain - people who have been slain (as in battle) living - people who are still living; "save your pity for the living" | | 2. | dead - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"time - an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor in his time" | | Adj. | 1. | dead - 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"alive, live - possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" | | 2. | dead - 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"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"extinct - (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano" live - exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" | | 3. | dead - very tired; "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"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" | | 4. | dead - unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"precise - sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" | | 5. | dead - physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"extinct - (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano" | | 6. | dead - (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" | | 7. | dead - 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"insensitive - not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation" | | 8. | dead - lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" | | 9. | dead - not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"unprofitable - producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" | | 10. | dead - not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"standing - (of fluids) not moving or flowing; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" | | 11. | dead - not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"extinct, nonextant - no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs" | | 12. | dead - lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"inelastic - not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure" | | 13. | dead - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"inoperative - not working or taking effect; "an inoperative law" | | 14. | dead - no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time | | 15. | dead - complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"complete - having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" | | 16. | dead - drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"uncharged - of a particle or body or system; having no charge; "an uncharged particle"; "an uncharged battery" | | 17. | dead - devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" | | Adv. | 1. | dead - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" | | 2. |  dead - 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" |
dead adjective 3. boring, dull, dreary, flat, plain, stale, tasteless, humdrum, uninteresting, insipid, ho-hum ( informal) vapid, dead-and-alive adjective 6. spiritless, cold, dull, wooden, glazed, indifferent, callous, lukewarm, inhuman, unsympathetic, apathetic, frigid, glassy, unresponsive, unfeeling, torpid << OPPOSITE lively adjective 7. numb, frozen, paralysed, insensitive, inert, deadened, immobilized, unfeeling, torpid, insensible, benumbed adjective 8. ( of a centre, silence, or a stop) total, complete, perfect, entire, absolute, utter, outright, thorough, downright, unqualified adjective 9. ( Informal) exhausted, tired, worn out, spent, wasted, done in ( informal) all in ( slang) drained, wiped out ( informal) sapped, knackered ( slang) prostrated, clapped out Brit., Austral., N.Z. ( informal) tired out, ready to drop, dog-tired ( informal) zonked ( slang) dead tired, dead beat ( informal) shagged out Brit. ( slang) worn to a frazzle ( informal) on your last legs ( informal) creamcrackered Brit. ( slang) adverb 11. exactly, quite, completely, totally, directly, perfectly, fully, entirely, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, utterly, consummately, wholeheartedly, unconditionally, to the hilt, one hundred per cent, unmitigatedly  Translations dead [dɛd] adj → muerto; [ limb] → dormido; [ battery] → agotadohe was dead on arrival → ingresó cadáver; to shoot sb dead → matar a algn a tiros; dead tired → muerto (de cansancio); the dead npl → los muertos
 dead [dɛd] adj → mort(e) (= numb); engourdi(e) → insensible; [ battery] → à platthe dead npl → les morts; the line is dead ( Tel) → la ligne est coupée
 dead [dɛd] adj → tot; (flowers) → verwelkt; ( directly, exactly) → genaunpl the dead → die Toten pl;
 dead [dɛd] adj → morto/a (= numb); intirizzito/athe dead npl → i morti; he was shot dead → fu colpito a morte; to stop dead → fermarsi in tronco; the line has gone dead ( TEL) → è caduta la linea
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