dead
About 74.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective No longer living; deceased.
All of my grandparents are dead.
- adjective Devoid of living things; barren.
a dead planet
- adjective Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- adjective Utterly exhausted.
- adjective So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
He is dead to me.
- adjective Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
"You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
- adjective Without emotion; impassive.
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- adjective Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
the dead load on the floor
Similar words
deceased defunct stone-dead doomed deathly deathlike extinct extinguished fallen departed
Often followed by
and in man body or sea of bodies to
Word family
as good as dead dead or alive deader deadest deadness deadnesses deads half dead play dead played dead
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