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Quick definitions from WordNet (dead)
▸ 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")
▸ adjective: unerringly accurate ("A dead shot")
▸ adjective: not yielding a return ("Dead capital")
▸ adjective: lacking acoustic resonance ("Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs")
▸ adjective: devoid of physical sensation; numb ("His gums were dead from the novocain")
▸ adjective: devoid of activity ("This is a dead town")
▸ adjective: physically inactive ("Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range")
▸ adjective: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life ("The nerve is dead")
▸ adjective: 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")
▸ adjective: lacking animation or excitement or activity ("The party being dead we left early")
▸ adjective: drained of electric charge; discharged ("A dead battery")
▸ adjective: no longer having force or relevance ("A dead issue")
▸ adjective: no longer in force or use; inactive ("A defunct (or dead) law")
▸ adjective: lacking resilience or bounce ("A dead tennis ball")
▸ adjective: not surviving in active use ("Latin is a dead language")
▸ adjective: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown ("A dead telephone line")
▸ adjective: not endowed with life ("Dead stones")
▸ adverb: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers ("You can be dead sure of my innocence")
▸ adverb: quickly and without warning
▸ Also see deads
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to dead
▸ Usage examples for dead
▸ Idioms related to dead (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing dead
▸ Popular nouns described by dead
▸ Words that often appear near dead
▸ Rhymes of dead
▸ Invented words related to dead
▸ 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")
▸ adjective: unerringly accurate ("A dead shot")
▸ adjective: not yielding a return ("Dead capital")
▸ adjective: lacking acoustic resonance ("Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs")
▸ adjective: devoid of physical sensation; numb ("His gums were dead from the novocain")
▸ adjective: devoid of activity ("This is a dead town")
▸ adjective: physically inactive ("Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range")
▸ adjective: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life ("The nerve is dead")
▸ adjective: 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")
▸ adjective: lacking animation or excitement or activity ("The party being dead we left early")
▸ adjective: drained of electric charge; discharged ("A dead battery")
▸ adjective: no longer having force or relevance ("A dead issue")
▸ adjective: no longer in force or use; inactive ("A defunct (or dead) law")
▸ adjective: lacking resilience or bounce ("A dead tennis ball")
▸ adjective: not surviving in active use ("Latin is a dead language")
▸ adjective: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown ("A dead telephone line")
▸ adjective: not endowed with life ("Dead stones")
▸ adverb: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers ("You can be dead sure of my innocence")
▸ adverb: quickly and without warning
▸ Also see deads
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to dead
▸ Usage examples for dead
▸ Idioms related to dead (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing dead
▸ Popular nouns described by dead
▸ Words that often appear near dead
▸ Rhymes of dead
▸ Invented words related to dead