noun. people who are no longer living they buried the dead |
noun. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense the dead of winter |
adj. 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 |
adj. 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 |
adv. quickly and without warning he stopped suddenly |
adv. 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 |
adj. 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 |
adj. unerringly accurate a dead shot|took dead aim |
adj. physically inactive Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range |
adj. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive passersby were dead to our plea for help|numb to the cries for mercy |
adj. 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 |
adj. lacking acoustic resonance dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs|the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio |
adj. not yielding a return dead capital|idle funds |
adj. not circulating or flowing dead air|dead water|stagnant water |
adj. not surviving in active use Latin is a dead language |
adj. lacking resilience or bounce a dead tennis ball |
adj. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown a dead telephone line|the motor is dead |
adj. no longer having force or relevance a dead issue |
adj. the complete stoppage of an action came to a dead stop |
adj. drained of electric charge; discharged a dead battery|left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained |
adj. devoid of activity this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here |
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