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(satellite adjective) total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" |
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Synonyms: utter |
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(satellite adjective) devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" |
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(satellite adjective) physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: alive |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: live |
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(satellite adjective) lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" |
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Synonyms: lifeless |
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(satellite adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" |
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Synonyms: drained |
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(satellite adjective) sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" |
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(satellite adjective) no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" |
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(satellite adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" |
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Synonyms: defunct |
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(satellite adjective) lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" |
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(satellite adjective) not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" |
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(satellite adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" |
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(satellite adjective) not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" |
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Synonyms: stagnant |
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(satellite adjective) unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" |
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(satellite adjective) not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" |
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Synonyms: idle |
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(satellite adjective) lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: deadened |
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(satellite adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" |
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Synonyms: numb |
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(noun) people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" |
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Related Words: people, slain |
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Antonyms: living |
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(noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" |
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Related Words: time |
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(adjective) not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" |
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Synonyms: inanimate, nonliving |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
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(adverb) quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" |
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Synonyms: abruptly, short, suddenly |
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(satellite adjective) (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" |
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Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
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