dead

Meaning

Adj

1. No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
2. Devoid of living things; barren.
3. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
4. So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored or ostracized.
5. Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
6. Without emotion; impassive.
7. Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
8. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
9. Unproductive; fallow.
10. Past, bygone, vanished.
11. Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
12. Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
13. Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
14. Broken or inoperable.
15. No longer used or required.
16. Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
17. Not in play.
18. Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
19. (slang) Tagged out.
20. Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
21. Exact; on the dot.
22. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
23. Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
24. Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
25. Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
26. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
27. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
28. Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
29. Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.

Adv

1. (colloquial,informal) Exactly.
2. (colloquial,informal) Very, absolutely, extremely.
3. Suddenly and completely.
4. (informal) As if dead.

Noun

1. Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
2. Those who have died: dead people.

Noun

1. (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.

Verb

1. To prevent by disabling; to stop.
2. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
3. (slang) To kill.
4. (slang) To discontinue or put an end to (something).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛd/

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

Sentences

The " Daily " was instrumental in the spread of the Paul is dead urban legend .

‘The dead letters , of course , ’ said the bagman .