dead

Adjective

• devoid of activity; nothing ever happens here"
  • this is a dead town
    

• drained of electric charge; discharged
  • a dead battery
    
  • left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
    

• complete
  • came to a dead stop
    
  • utter seriousness
    

• no longer having force or relevance
  • a dead issue
    

• out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
  • a dead telephone line
    
  • the motor is dead
    

• lacking resilience or bounce
  • a dead tennis ball
    

• not surviving in active use
  • Latin is a dead language
    

• not circulating or flowing
  • dead air
    
  • dead water
    
  • stagnant water
    

• not yielding a return
  • dead capital
    
  • idle funds
    

• 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
    

• unerringly accurate
  • a dead shot
    
  • took dead aim
    

• 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
  • Mars is a dead planet
    
  • dead soil
    
  • dead coals
    
  • the fire is 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
    

Noun

• a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  • the dead of winter
    

• people who are no longer living
  • they buried the dead
    

Adverb

• 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
    

• quickly and without warning
  • he stopped suddenly
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  drained , dead(a) , utter , stagnant , idle , deadened , dead(p) , numb(p) , all in(p) , beat(p) , bushed(p) , absolutely , perfectly , utterly , abruptly , suddenly , short
• Antonyms: 
  live , alive(p) , living