dead
adjective
[ dɛd ]
• no longer alive.
• "a dead body"
Similar:
deceased,
expired,
departed,
gone,
no more,
passed on,
passed away,
late,
lost,
lamented,
perished,
fallen,
slain,
slaughtered,
killed,
murdered,
lifeless,
not breathing,
having breathed one's last,
defunct,
extinct,
inanimate,
insentient,
insensate,
inert,
(as) dead as a doornail,
six feet under,
pushing up daisies,
under the sod,
with God,
asleep,
at peace,
demised,
exanimate,
• (of a place or time) characterized by a lack of activity or excitement.
• "Brussels isn't dead after dark, if you know where to look"
Similar:
uneventful,
uninteresting,
unexciting,
uninspiring,
dull,
boring,
flat,
quiet,
sleepy,
slow,
stale,
humdrum,
tame,
pedestrian,
lacklustre,
lifeless,
tedious,
tiresome,
wearisome,
backward,
backwoods,
behind the times,
one-horse,
dead-and-alive,
dullsville,
• (of a piece of equipment) no longer functioning.
• "the phone had gone dead"
Similar:
not working,
out of order,
out of commission,
inoperative,
inactive,
ineffective,
in (a state of) disrepair,
broken,
broken-down,
malfunctioning,
defective,
kaput,
conked out,
on the blink,
bust,
busted,
gone phut,
finished,
done for,
dud,
knackered,
duff,
buggered,
Opposite:
in working order,
• no longer current, relevant, or important.
• "pollution had become a dead issue"
• (of sound) without resonance; dull.
• "the note sounds dead compared to all others on the keyboard"
• complete; absolute.
• "we sat in dead silence"
Similar:
complete,
absolute,
total,
entire,
outright,
utter,
downright,
out-and-out,
thorough,
unqualified,
unmitigated,
dead
adverb
• absolutely; completely.
• "you're dead right"
Similar:
completely,
absolutely,
totally,
utterly,
deadly,
perfectly,
entirely,
wholly,
fully,
quite,
thoroughly,
unreservedly,
definitely,
certainly,
positively,
unconditionally,
categorically,
unquestionably,
no doubt,
undoubtedly,
without a doubt,
without question,
surely,
unequivocally,
exactly,
precisely,
decisively,
conclusively,
manifestly,
in every way,
in every respect,
one hundred per cent,
every inch,
to the hilt,
Origin:
Old English dēad, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch dood and German tot, also to die1.
