dead

Meanings

Adjective

• No longer living.
• Devoid of life.
• Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
• Without emotion.
• Stationary; static.
• Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• Unproductive.
• Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
• Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
• Broken or inoperable.
• No longer used or required.
• Not imparting motion or power by design.
• Not in play.
• Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
• Tagged out.
• Full and complete.
• Exact.
• Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• Bringing death; deadly.
• Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).

Adverb

• Exactly.
• Very, absolutely, extremely.
• Suddenly and completely.
• As if dead.

Noun

• Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
• Short form of deadlift

Verb

• To prevent by disabling; stop.
• To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• To kill.

Related

Opposite words

• alive
• living

Origin

• From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
• Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.