1. dead

people who are no longer living

Example Sentences:
'they buried the dead'

2. dead

a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

Example Sentences:
'the dead of winter'

3. dead

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

Example Sentences:
'the nerve is dead'
'a dead pallor'
'he was marked as a dead man by the assassin'

• asleep
• at peace
• at rest
• deceased
• departed
• gone
• assassinated
• bloodless
• exsanguine
• exsanguinous
• brain dead
• breathless
• inanimate
• pulseless
• cold
• d.o.a.
• deathlike
• deathly
• defunct
• doomed
• exanimate
• lifeless
• executed
• fallen
• late
• murdered
• nonviable
• slain
• stillborn
• stone-dead

4. dead

not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat

Example Sentences:
'Mars is a dead planet'
'dead soil'
'dead coals'
'the fire is dead'

• extinct
• out
• lifeless
• out of play

5. all in, beat, bushed, dead

very tired

Example Sentences:
'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'

• all in
• beat
• bushed

6. dead

unerringly accurate

Example Sentences:
'a dead shot'
'took dead aim'

7. dead

physically inactive

Example Sentences:
'Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range'

8. dead, numb

(followed by to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

Example Sentences:
'passersby were dead to our plea for help'
'numb to the cries for mercy'

• numb

9. dead, deadened

devoid of physical sensation; numb

Example Sentences:
'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'

• deadened

10. dead

lacking acoustic resonance

Example Sentences:
'dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs'
'the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio'

• nonresonant
• unreverberant

11. dead, idle

not yielding a return

Example Sentences:
'dead capital'
'idle funds'

• idle

12. dead, stagnant

not circulating or flowing

Example Sentences:
'dead air'
'dead water'
'stagnant water'

• stagnant

13. dead

not surviving in active use

Example Sentences:
'Latin is a dead language'

• extinct
• nonextant

14. dead

lacking resilience or bounce

Example Sentences:
'a dead tennis ball'

15. dead

out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

Example Sentences:
'a dead telephone line'
'the motor is dead'

16. dead

no longer having force or relevance

Example Sentences:
'a dead issue'

17. dead, utter

complete

Example Sentences:
'came to a dead stop'
'utter seriousness'

• utter

18. dead, drained

drained of electric charge; discharged

Example Sentences:
'a dead battery'
'left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained'

• drained

19. dead

devoid of activity

Example Sentences:
'this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here'

20. abruptly, dead, short, suddenly

quickly and without warning

Example Sentences:
'he stopped suddenly'

• abruptly
• short
• suddenly

21. absolutely, dead, perfectly, utterly

completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

Example Sentences:
'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'

• absolutely
• perfectly
• utterly