Meaning & Definition of Dead in English

1. People who are no longer living

• "They buried the dead"

2. A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

• "The dead of winter"

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"

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"

• "Dead soil"

• "Dead coals"

• "The fire is dead"

3. 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"

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. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity

• Unresponsive

• "Passersby were dead to our plea for help"

• "Numb to the cries for mercy"

7. 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"

8. Lacking acoustic resonance

• "Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"

• "The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

9. Not yielding a return

• "Dead capital"

• "Idle funds"

10. Not circulating or flowing

• "Dead air"

• "Dead water"

• "Stagnant water"

11. Not surviving in active use

• "Latin is a dead language"

12. Lacking resilience or bounce

• "A dead tennis ball"

13. Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

• "A dead telephone line"

• "The motor is dead"

14. No longer having force or relevance

• "A dead issue"

15. Complete

• "Came to a dead stop"

• "Utter seriousness"

16. Drained of electric charge

• Discharged

• "A dead battery"

• "Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

17. Devoid of activity

• "This is a dead town

• Nothing ever happens here"

1. Quickly and without warning

• "He stopped suddenly"

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"