dead
adj 1: 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" [ant: {alive(p)}]
2: 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead
soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: {live}]
3: (informal) 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" [syn: {all in(p)}, {beat(p)}, {bushed(p)}, {dead(p)}]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn: {dead(a)},
{utter(a)}]
7: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
"inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: {inanimate}, {nonliving}]
[ant: {animate}]
8: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}]
9: 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" [syn: {deadened}]
10: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a
recording studio"
11: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: {idle}]
12: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}, {stagnant}]
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
15: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
16: no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead)
law"; "a defunct organization" [syn: {defunct}]
17: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
18: sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn: {dead(a)}]
19: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn: {drained}]
20: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party
being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until
she arrived" [syn: {lifeless}]
21: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant: {living}]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly},
{suddenly}, {short}]
2: 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" [syn: {absolutely},
{perfectly}, {utterly}]