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'

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; dead soil; dead coals; the fire is dead'

people who are no longer living; they buried the dead'

a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; the dead of winter'

quickly and without warning; he stopped suddenly

[ Syn: abruptly , abruptly , suddenly , suddenly , short , short , abruptly , abruptly , suddenly , suddenly , short , short , abruptly , abruptly , suddenly , suddenly , short , short , abruptly , abruptly , suddenly , suddenly , short , short ]

completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; an absolutely magnificent painting; a perfectly idiotic idea; youre perfectly right; utterly miserable; you can be dead sure of my innocence; was dead tired; dead right

[ Syn: absolutely , absolutely , perfectly , perfectly , utterly , utterly , absolutely , absolutely , perfectly , perfectly , utterly , utterly , absolutely , absolutely , perfectly , perfectly , utterly , utterly , absolutely , absolutely , perfectly , perfectly , utterly , utterly ]

not circulating or flowing; dead air; dead water; stagnant water

[ Syn: stagnant ]

not surviving in active use; Latin is a dead language'

lacking resilience or bounce; a dead tennis ball'

out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; a dead telephone line; the motor is dead'

no longer having force or relevance; a dead issue'

complete; came to a dead stop; utter seriousness

[ Syn: utter ]

drained of electric charge; discharged; a dead battery; left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained

[ Syn: drained ]

devoid of activity; this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here'

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; Im dead after that long trip

[ Syn: all in , beat , bushed ]

unerringly accurate; a dead shot; took dead aim'

physically inactive; Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range'

(followed by `to) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; passersby were dead to our plea for help; numb to the cries for mercy

[ Syn: numb ]

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

[ Syn: deadened ]

lacking acoustic resonance; dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs; the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio'

not yielding a return; dead capital; idle funds

[ Syn: idle ]