deader

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.

   He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.

2. noun One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

   I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.

Similar words

corpse-to-be dead man walking stiff coffin dodger dead meat ongoer deadpanner deadhead doodie head corpsey

Often followed by

than the and in

Word family

as good as dead dead dead or alive deadest deadness deadnesses half dead play dead played dead playing dead