dead
/dɛd/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb
Forms deader deadest deads deading deaded
- adjective (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.) “All of my grandparents are dead.”
- adjective (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren. “a dead planet”
- adjective (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- adjective Utterly exhausted.
- adjective (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized. “He is dead to me.”
- adjective (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead. “"You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"”
- adjective Without emotion; impassive. “She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.”
- adjective Stationary; static; immobile or immovable. “the dead load on the floor”
- adverb (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly. “dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left”
- adverb (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely. “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”
- adverb Suddenly and completely. “He stopped dead.”
- adverb (informal) As if dead. “dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still”
- noun (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. “the dead of night”
- noun (with "the") Those who have died: dead people. “the quick and the dead”
- noun (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- verb (transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.
- verb (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- verb (transitive, UK, US, slang) To kill.
- verb (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, by extension) To discontinue or put an end to (something).
Synonyms
RIP mul:💀 crying LMAO ROFL mul:😭 asleep at rest blessed cadaverous clay-cold deceased breathless resting cold decomposed defunct departed expired extinct all in beat bushed numb deadened idle stagnant utter drained abruptly
Antonyms
alive bustling busy crowded hopping lively noisy live living quick
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.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Deprived of life; --opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak.
- adjective Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
- adverb To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.]
- noun The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
Etymology [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. deád; akin to OS. d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Death.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dead”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details