Analysis Complete

dead

/ dead /
noun/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
people who are no longer living
"they buried the dead"
Opposites:
living
Type of:
people
Kinds of:
slain
adjective satellite Sense 2
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"
Similar:
insensitive
adjective satellite Sense 3
lacking acoustic resonance
"dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"
"the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
Similar:
unreverberant nonresonant
adjective satellite Sense 4
not yielding a return
"dead capital"
"idle funds"
Similar:
unprofitable
adjective satellite Sense 5
unerringly accurate
"a dead shot"
"took dead aim"
Similar:
precise
adjective satellite Sense 6
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
"a dead telephone line"
"the motor is dead"
Similar:
malfunctioning nonfunctional
adjective satellite Sense 7
not surviving in active use
"Latin is a dead language"
Similar:
extinct nonextant
adjective satellite Sense 8
lacking resilience or bounce
"a dead tennis ball"
Similar:
inelastic
adjective satellite Sense 9
no longer in force or use; inactive
"a defunct (or dead) law"
"a defunct organization"
Similar:
inoperative
adjective satellite Sense 10
no longer having force or relevance
"a dead issue"
Similar:
noncurrent
adjective satellite Sense 11
drained of electric charge; discharged
"a dead battery"
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
Similar:
uncharged
noun Sense 12
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
"the dead of winter"
Type of:
time
adjective satellite Sense 13
devoid of activity
"this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
Similar:
inactive
adjective satellite Sense 14
physically inactive
"Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
Similar:
extinct inactive
adjective Sense 15
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"
Similar:
asleep(p) at peace(p) at rest(p) deceased departed gone assassinated bloodless
Opposites:
alive(p)
adjective Sense 16
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"
Similar:
barren lifeless out of play(p) extinct out(p)
Opposites:
live
adjective satellite Sense 17
lacking animation or excitement or activity
"the party being dead we left early"
"it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
Similar:
unanimated
adjective Sense 18
not endowed with life
"the inorganic world is inanimate"
"inanimate objects"
"dead stones"
Similar:
nonconscious
Opposites:
animate
adverb Sense 19
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"
Pertains to:
arrant(a) complete(a) consummate(a) double-dyed(a) everlasting(a)
adverb Sense 20
quickly and without warning
"he stopped suddenly"
Pertains to:
sudden abrupt
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
20
Total Synonyms
31
Total Relationships
38
Times Searched
4
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people slain living insensitive unreverberant nonresonant unprofitable precise malfunctioning nonfunctional extinct nonextant