dead (
http://definr.com/dead)
adj 1: 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" [ant:
alive(p)]
2: 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" [ant:
live]
3: (informal) 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"; "I'm dead after that
long trip" [syn:
all in(p),
beat(p),
bushed(p),
dead(p)]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn:
dead(a),
utter(a)]
7: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
"inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn:
inanimate,
nonliving]
[ant:
animate]
8: (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:
dead(p),
numb(p)]
9: 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]
10: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a
recording studio"
11: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn:
idle]
12: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn:
dead(a),
stagnant]
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
15: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
16: no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead)
law"; "a defunct organization" [syn:
defunct]
17: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
18: sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn:
dead(a)]
19: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn:
drained]
20: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party
being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until
she arrived" [syn:
lifeless]
21: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant:
living]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn:
abruptly,
suddenly,
short]
2: 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" [syn:
absolutely,
perfectly,
utterly]