Listen
Adjective
- devoid of activity; nothing ever happens here"
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
- no longer having force or relevance
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- lacking resilience or bounce
- not surviving in active use
- not circulating or flowing
- lacking acoustic resonance
- dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
- the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
- 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
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- passersby were dead to our plea for help
- numb to the cries for mercy
- physically inactive
- Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
- 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
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Noun
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- people who are no longer living
Adverb
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- an absolutely magnificent painting
- you can be dead sure of my innocence
- quickly and without warning