- 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"
Antonyms: alive, live, liveborn, viable, vital
- 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
Antonyms: live, in play, living, smoldering, smouldering
- all in, beat, bushed, 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"
Antonym: rested (indirect, via tired)
- dead - unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
Antonym: imprecise (indirect, via precise)
- dead - physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
Antonym: active (indirect, via dormant, extinct)
Antonyms: dormant, inactive (indirect, via extinct, active)
- dead, utter - total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness"
Antonym: relative (indirect, via absolute)
- inanimate, nonliving, dead - not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
- dead, numb - (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
Antonym: sensitive (indirect, via insensitive)
- dead, deadened - 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"
Antonym: sensitive (indirect, via insensitive)
- dead - lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
Antonyms: reverberant, ringing (indirect, via unreverberant)
- dead, idle - not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
Antonym: profitable (indirect, via unprofitable)
- dead, stagnant - not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
Antonym: running (indirect, via standing)
- dead - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
Antonym: functioning (indirect, via malfunctioning)
- dead - not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
Antonym: extant (indirect, via extinct)
- dead - lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
Antonym: elastic (indirect, via inelastic)
- dead, defunct - no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
Antonym: operative (indirect, via inoperative)
- dead - no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
Antonym: current (indirect, via noncurrent)
- dead - sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop"
Antonyms: incomplete, uncomplete (indirect, via complete)
Antonym: incomplete (indirect, via complete)
- dead, drained - drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
Antonym: charged (indirect, via uncharged)
- dead, lifeless - lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
Antonyms: animated, alive (indirect, via unanimated)
- dead - devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
Antonym: active (indirect, via inactive)
- abruptly, suddenly, short, dead - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- absolutely, perfectly, utterly, 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 - people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
--1 is a kind of people
--1 has members:
Antonyms: livingdead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
--1 has particulars: slain - dead - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
--2 is a kind of time