dead
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: deader
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: deadest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: All of my grandparents are dead.
Have respect for the dead.
The villagers are mourning their dead.
The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.
raise the dead
wake the dead
gloss: Devoid of living things; barren.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a dead planet
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.
Was it possible to exist upon a dead world?
gloss: Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
not-comparable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Utterly exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”
gloss: So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: He is dead to me.
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?
gloss: Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
You're dead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you're dead.
gloss: Without emotion; impassive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
gloss: Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: the dead load on the floor
a dead lift
gloss: Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: dead air
a dead glass of soda.
He stopped, took a swig of the dead champagne. It was like 7-Up.
gloss: Unproductive; fallow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: dead time
dead fields
The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.
gloss: Past, bygone, vanished.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
gloss: Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Joker: Everything cuts out after that. No comm traffic at all. Just goes dead. There's nothing.
gloss: Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Broken or inoperable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
gloss: No longer used or required.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
Is this beer glass dead?
No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
gloss: Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: the dead spindle of a lathe
A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
gloss: Not in play.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
gloss: Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Tagged out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
usually
gloss: Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: dead stop
dead sleep
dead giveaway
dead silence
gloss: Exact; on the dot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: dead center
dead aim
a dead eye
a dead level
gloss: Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
gloss: Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
pos: adj
tags: Internet
excessive
not-comparable
often
sometimes
usually
examples: 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 😭
gloss: Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
pos: adj
tags: Internet
not-comparable
often
sometimes
usually
gloss: Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a dead floor
gloss: Bringing death; deadly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
gloss: Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
gloss: Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
often
rare
usually
examples: 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.
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."
gloss: Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: […] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.
gloss: Exactly.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
informal
not-comparable
examples: dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
He hit the target dead in the centre.
Across the region known as the Landes, this stretch of line is almost dead level, and the only curve is one of 2¼ miles radius through the station of Labouheyre.
Independent tests later confirmed [the figures] to be accurate, with Car & Driver seeing 159mph (254kph), 0.60 in five seconds dead, and an amazingly high 0.97g.
And because the tunnel is dead straight, it's perfect for reaching high speeds.
gloss: Very, absolutely, extremely.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
informal
not-comparable
examples: dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy
I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
They tried the gas in the room and it was dead out; they looked at the meter in the basement afterwards and it was dead off.
gloss: Suddenly and completely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He stopped dead.
She cut me dead again at the last party.
gloss: As if dead.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
gloss: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
pos: noun
tags: often
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: Near-synonym: nadir
the dead of night
the dead of winter
gloss: Those who have died: dead people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: the quick and the dead
Will the dead rise again?
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
gloss: To prevent by disabling; to stop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
“What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
gloss: To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: UK
US
slang
transitive
examples: I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
“What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need to dead right now.”
gloss: To discontinue or put an end to (something).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
slang
transitive
examples: "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."
"This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"
"Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man. Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that."
Synonyms: asleep
at rest
blessed
cadaverous
clay-cold
deceased
resting
decomposed
defunct
departed
expired
extinct
fey
gone
good
inanimate
inert
kaput
killed
late
lifeless
living impaired
low
no longer with us
no more
perished
reposing
six feet deep
six feet under
stiff
unalive
unalived
wasted
whilom
with God
Antonyms: alive
live
living
Related words: (to be) at peace
(to be) at the end of the road
(to be) bereft of life
(to be) belly up
(to have) bitten the big one
(to have) bitten the dust
(to have) bought the farm
(to be) brown bread
(to have) ceased to be
(to be) checked out
(to be) dead and gone
(to be) dead as a dodo
(to be) dead as a doornail
(to be) dead as a doorknob
(to be) dead as a duck
(to be) dead as a haddock
(to be) dead as a hammer
(to be) dead as a herring
(to be) dead as a mackerel
(to be) dead as a nit
(to be) dead as a pickled herring
(to be) dead as a stump
(to be) dead as a turd
(to be) dead as a turd in a milk bucket
(to be) dead as dishwater
(to be) dead as mutton
(to be) dead as stone
(to be) dead as wood
(to be) deader than dead
(to be) deader than road kill
(to go) feet first
(to be) food for worms
(to be) gone away
(to have) gone on to one's reward
(to have) gone to be with Jesus
(to have) gone to heaven
(to have) gone to one's final resting place
(to have) gone to paradise
(to have) gone to sing with the angels
(to have) gone to the Great Beyond
(to have) gone to the next life
(to be) in Abraham's bosom
(to be) in heaven
(to be) in paradise
(to be) in the grave
(to have) joined the choir invisible
(to have) kicked the bucket
(to have) met one's end
(to have) met one's maker
(to be) no longer with us
(to be) offed
(to be) passed away
(to have) passed on
(to be) pining for the fjords
(to be) pushing up the daisies
(to be) resting in peace
(to have) run down the curtain
(to have) seen the reaper
(to have) shuffled off this mortal coil
(to be) six feet under
(to) sleep with the fishes
(to have) snuffed it
(to be) stone dead
(to be) taking a dirt nap
(to be) washed up
(to be) with God
(to be) worm food
(to be) wasted
die
kill
death
cemetery
deaden
deadliness
deadly
deadness
undead
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: dood
lang: Ainu
word: チ
roman: chi
lang: Albanian
word: vdekur
lang: Gheg Albanian
word: shkum
lang: Aleut
word: asxaanax
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӧлгӧн
roman: ölgön
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӧлӱ
roman: ölü
lang: Arabic
word: مَيِّت
roman: mayyit
lang: Arabic
word: ميت
roman: mayyit
lang: Armenian
word: մեռած
roman: meṙac
lang: Aromanian
word: mortu
lang: Asturian
word: muertu
lang: Aymara
word: jiwata
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ölü
lang: Bashkir
word: үлгән
roman: ülgən
lang: Bashkir
word: үле
roman: üle
lang: Belarusian
word: мёртвы
roman: mjórtvy
lang: Bengali
word: মৃত
roman: mrito
lang: Bengali
word: মুর্দা
roman: murda
lang: Breton
word: maro
lang: Bulgarian
word: мъ́ртъв
roman: mǎ́rtǎv
lang: Burmese
word: သေ
roman: se
lang: Catalan
word: mort
lang: Cebuano
word: patay
lang: Chamicuro
word: kashele'taka
lang: Chechen
word: делла
roman: della
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏲᎱᏒᎢ
roman: uyohusvi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 死的
roman: sǐ de
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: ölü
lang: Czech
word: mrtvý
lang: Dalmatian
word: muart
lang: Danish
word: død
lang: Dutch
word: dood
lang: Dutch
word: dode
lang: Dutch
word: overleden
lang: Dutch
word: gestorven
lang: Esperanto
word: morta
lang: Estonian
word: surnud
lang: Faroese
word: deyður
lang: Finnish
word: kuollut
lang: Finnish
word: vainaja
lang: Finnish
word: raato
lang: Finnish
word: haaska
lang: Finnish
word: uhri
lang: Finnish
word: eloton
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: môrt
lang: French
word: mort
lang: West-Frisian
word: dea
lang: West-Frisian
word: deade
lang: Friulian
word: muart
lang: Galician
word: morto
lang: Georgian
word: მკვდარი
roman: mḳvdari
lang: Georgian
word: გარდაცვლილი
roman: gardacvlili
lang: Georgian
word: მიცვალებული
roman: micvalebuli
lang: German
word: tot
lang: German
word: gestorben
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃
roman: dauþs
lang: Greek
word: νεκρός
roman: nekrós
lang: Greek
word: πεθαμένος
roman: pethaménos
lang: Greek
word: ψόφιος
roman: psófios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: νεκρός
roman: nekrós
lang: Greenlandic
word: toqu
lang: Haitian Creole
word: mò
lang: Hawaiian
word: make
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵת
roman: met
lang: Higaonon
word: namatay
lang: Hindi
word: मृत
roman: mŕt
lang: Hindi
word: मरा हुआ
roman: marā huā
lang: Hindi
word: मुर्दा
roman: murdā
lang: Hindi
word: निर्जीव
roman: nirjīv
lang: Hungarian
word: halott
lang: Hungarian
word: holt
lang: Hungarian
word: döglött
lang: Icelandic
word: dauður
lang: Icelandic
word: dáinn
lang: Icelandic
word: látinn
lang: Ido
word: mortinta
lang: Indonesian
word: mati
lang: Indonesian
word: meninggal
lang: Interlingua
word: morte
lang: Inuktitut
word: ᑐᖁ
roman: toqo
lang: Irish
word: marbh
lang: Italian
word: morto
lang: Ivatan
word: diman
lang: Japanese
word: 死んだ
roman: shinda
lang: Japanese
word: 亡い
roman: nai
lang: Javanese
word: mati
lang: Kapampangan
word: mate
lang: Kazakh
word: өлі
roman: ölı
lang: Khmer
word: ម្រឹត
roman: mrɨt
lang: Khmer
word: ស្លាប់
roman: slap
lang: Korean
word: 죽었다
roman: jugeotda
lang: Korean
word: 죽은
roman: jugeun
lang: Central Kurdish
word: مردوو
roman: mirdû
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өлүк
roman: ölük
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өлүү
roman: ölüü
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өлгөн
roman: ölgön
lang: Ladino
word: met
lang: Ladino
word: muerto
lang: Ladino
word: niftar
lang: Lao
word: ຕາຍ
roman: tāi
lang: Latin
word: mortuus
lang: Latvian
word: miris
lang: Latvian
word: nedzīvs
lang: Limburgish
word: doead
lang: Limburgish
word: doeaje
lang: Limburgish
word: kepót
lang: Limburgish
word: kepótte
lang: Lithuanian
word: miręs
lang: Lithuanian
word: negyvas
lang: Lombard
word: mort
lang: Low German
word: dood
lang: Luxembourgish
word: dout
lang: Macedonian
word: мртов
roman: mrtov
lang: Macedonian
word: умрен
roman: umren
lang: Macedonian
word: пцовисан
roman: pcovisan
lang: Malay
word: mati
lang: Manx
word: marroo
lang: Mongolian
word: үхсэн
roman: üxsen
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠦᠬᠦᠭᠰᠡᠨ
roman: üküɣsen
lang: Mpade
word: madɨ
lang: Neapolitan
word: muorto
lang: Nepali
word: मृत
roman: mr̥t
lang: Nepali
word: मरेको
roman: mareko
lang: Norman
word: mort
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: død
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: død
lang: Occitan
word: mòrt
lang: Church Slavic
word: мрътвъ
roman: mrŭtvŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: мьртвъ
roman: mĭrtvŭ
lang: Old English
word: dēad
lang: Oromo
word: du'aa
lang: Ossetian
word: мард
roman: mard
lang: Pashto
word: مړ
roman: mar
lang: Persian
word: مرده
roman: morde
lang: Piedmontese
word: mòrt
lang: Plautdietsch
word: doot
lang: Polish
word: martwy
lang: Polish
word: zmarły
lang: Polish
word: nieżywy
lang: Portuguese
word: morto
lang: Romani
word: mulo
lang: Romanian
word: mort
lang: Romansh
word: mort
lang: Romansh
word: miert
lang: Russian
word: мёртвый
roman: mjórtvyj
lang: Russian
word: у́мерший
roman: úmeršij
lang: Russian
word: до́хлый
roman: dóxlyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: jápmit
lang: Sanskrit
word: मृत
roman: mṛtá
lang: Sardinian
word: moltu
lang: Sardinian
word: mortu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: marbh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мр̀тав
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: у̏мрлӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mr̀tav
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȕmrlī
lang: Sicilian
word: mortu
lang: Sinhalese
word: මළ
roman: maḷa
lang: Slovak
word: mŕtvy
lang: Slovene
word: mŕtev
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: martwy
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: morwy
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: mortwy
lang: Spanish
word: muerto
lang: Spanish
word: finado
lang: Old Spanish
word: muerto
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: dede
lang: Swedish
word: död
lang: Tagalog
word: patay
lang: Taíno
word: operi'to
lang: Tajik
word: мурда
roman: murda
lang: Tatar
word: үлек
roman: ülek
lang: Tatar
word: үле
roman: üle
lang: Tausug
word: patay
lang: Thai
word: ตาย
roman: dtaai
lang: Thai
word: เสียชีวิต
roman: sǐia-chii-wít
lang: Tok Pisin
word: dai
lang: Turkish
word: ölü
lang: Turkish
word: ölmüş
lang: Turkmen
word: öli
lang: Tuvan
word: өлүг
roman: ölüg
lang: Tuvan
word: ölgen
lang: Tuvan
word: ыржым
roman: ırjım
lang: Tuvan
word: шыпшың
roman: şıpşıñ
lang: Tuvan
word: ээн
roman: een
lang: Ukrainian
word: ме́ртвий
roman: mértvyj
lang: Urdu
word: مردہ
roman: murda
lang: Uyghur
word: ئۆلۈك
roman: ölük
lang: Uzbek
word: oʻlik
lang: Venetan
word: morto
lang: Vietnamese
word: chết
lang: Walloon
word: moirt
lang: Walloon
word: crevé
lang: Welsh
word: marw
lang: Yiddish
word: טויט
roman: toyt
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: kimen
lang: Yup'ik
word: tuqu
lang: Zaghawa
word: nî
lang: Bengali
word: মুর্দা
roman: murda
lang: Finnish
word: kuollut
lang: German
word: gestorben
lang: Hungarian
word: nem létezik
lang: Persian
word: مرده
roman: morde
lang: Portuguese
word: morto