Word: dead Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död. Pronunciation: /dɛd/, /diːd/ 1. No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.) Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: All of my grandparents are dead. Example: Have respect for the dead. 2. Devoid of living things; barren. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a dead planet Example: Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon. 3. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. Labels: excessive, not-comparable, usually Example: When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. 4. Utterly exhausted. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!” 5. So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: He is dead to me. Example: I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? 6. Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!" Example: You're dead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you're dead. 7. Without emotion; impassive. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea. 8. Stationary; static; immobile or immovable. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: the dead load on the floor Example: a dead lift 9. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: dead air Example: a dead glass of soda. 10. Unproductive; fallow. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: dead time Example: dead fields 11. Past, bygone, vanished. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old, dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things. 12. Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant. 13. Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire. Example: Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs. 14. Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty. Labels: not-comparable, usually 15. Broken or inoperable. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up. 16. No longer used or required. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched. Example: Is this beer glass dead? 17. Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: the dead spindle of a lathe Example: A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating. 18. Not in play. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead. 19. Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. Labels: not-comparable, usually 20. Tagged out. Labels: not-comparable, slang, usually 21. Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life). Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: dead stop Example: dead sleep 22. Exact; on the dot. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: dead center Example: dead aim 23. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead. 24. Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die: Labels: Internet, excessive, not-comparable, often, sometimes, usually Example: Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭 25. Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die: Labels: Internet, not-comparable, often, sometimes, usually 26. Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a dead floor 27. Bringing death; deadly. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, usually Example: You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear. 28. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead. 29. Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc). Labels: especially, not-comparable, often, rare, usually Example: He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God. Example: But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin." 30. Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: […] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.