dead
- adjective
- /dɛd/
- I see you floundering like a dead dolphin in the waves.
Like he was dead, but he was still living.
- Like he was dead, but he was still living.
- Whoever their spirit is dead, if they ever had one, it's gone.
- No, it's just dead, just a completely dead face.
- It's not a dead and uncaring universe.
- Next level, I'm going to kill dead eyes, man.
Examples
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A man is dead inside tonight.
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I don't know what's harder for a child, to see your mother dead, or your father cry.
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It's like, I mean, I'm dead, but I still exist.
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And so being dead does not scare me.
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I feel so dead with you, Brice.
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I wished I was dead every day because I didn't want to go.
Academic text (2013) -
I don't think her eyes look that dead there, but I don't know.
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In my mind's eye, I saw the dead neon sign swaying a little in the night air.
Fiction book (1990) -
I can't believe that the noblest impulse of man — his compassion for another— can be completely dead here.
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After the stressful meeting, she felt completely dead inside and unable to care about anything.
Synonyms
Not awake and not able to respond to people or things
Unable to feel or show emotion after something upsetting
Not moving and showing no signs of people or animals
Unconscious and unable to feel or respond
Having no feelings and unable to enjoy things or care
Moving slowly and not fully aware because you are very tired
A part of the body that has no feeling so you cannot feel touch
Having little energy or feeling and seeming lifeless
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Continuing to talk about something already decided and pointless
Compounds
- Specialized
A person with no brain activity and no chance to get better, though the body may still work
- Jargon
A secret place where people leave messages or items for others to collect without meeting
A group of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic writings found in caves near the Dead Sea
- Specialized
To estimate your position using direction, distance, and past information without tools
- Specialized
A position where the piston and rod are straight so the engine cannot turn
- Literature
A phrase that once made a clear picture but now feels literal like 'leg of a table'
A small plant with leaves like stinging nettles that does not sting when touched, often in gardens
- Specialized
A space with no air movement between layers that helps keep heat in or out
- Specialized
Material made by heating limestone until it stops reacting and does not bind well
- UK
A cold room in hospitals and funeral homes that holds dead bodies before burial or cremation
A phrase used to describe famous white European men from history who stand for traditional ideas
A position for floating face down in the water with arms stretched forward to rest and breathe
- Specialized
A species or group that cannot have young and so ends its family line
A European plant from the mint family with white flowers that looks like stinging nettles but does not sting
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dead comes from an old English word meaning 'not alive', and it also came to mean 'without feeling' or 'numb'. So doctors say a limb is 'dead' when you cannot feel or move it.