lifeless
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪf.ləs/
- The Earth will likely be lifeless in 4 billion years, long before the sun expands and swallows us.
- barren and lifeless
- cold and lifeless
- empty and lifeless
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Watch on YouTubeThis might seem as futile as looking for a live ember in lifeless Gray ashes.
- This might seem as futile as looking for a live ember in lifeless Gray ashes.
Examples
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The ocean seemed lifeless, devoid of any sea creatures, as the pollution had taken its toll on the ecosystem.
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For much of the long span of its history, our planet lay barren and lifeless.
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Sand and air are lifeless, because they contain no DNA.
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Eventually, the planet will be a dry, dusty, lifeless ball.
Fiction book (1998) -
We made landfall on five lifeless planets.
Fiction book (1997) -
The next spring, there is a bare, lifeless patch where once a whole ecosystem thrived.
Blog text (15) -
The icecap was a perfect graveyard, utterly lifeless, and it encouraged thoughts of mortality.
Fiction book (2000) -
In Setswana, the national language of Botswana, Makgadikgadi means "vast, open, lifeless land."
Academic text (2006) -
If it weren't for this fragile cocoon, our planet would be as dry and lifeless as our nearest neighbors in the solar system.
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It's deserted... dusty... lifeless.
Synonyms
292
2.8
Left empty and not used, often by people who lived there
72
1.0
Still and quiet, without movement or life, like water
27
5.3
Not alive and cannot move or feel
23
4.0
A place with no people living there
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5.3
Having no useful ideas or emotion
13
7.5
A place or building that is abandoned and in very bad condition from lack of use
5
5.1
Completely without life or totally not working
3
7.8
Having little energy or feeling and seeming lifeless
3
6.5
Very pale, still, or quiet like someone who is dead
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3.9
Not alive and does not grow or breathe
1
8.6
Pale and motionless like someone who is dead
1
7.6
Something that is not lively and seems dull and without energy
1
9.9
Without life or any sign of feeling
Antonyms
How Alive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lifeless is made of life and less, where less means 'without'. That's why we call a planet or place lifeless when it cannot support living things — there is 'no life' there.