| 单词 | lifeless |
| 释义 | lifeless (once / 1001 pages) adj Someone who's lifeless has died. Your lifeless house plant probably got that way because you forgot to water it. You can use the adjective lifeless to describe once-living things, like people, animals, and plants, and you can also use it for objects that appear inert: "The creepy thing about that painting is the clown's lifeless eyes." Things that are duller or droopier than they should be are also lifeless, like your lifeless hair or a writer's lifeless prose. Less common is using lifeless to mean "with no living things," like the lifeless planet Venus. WORD FAMILYlifeless: lifelessly, lifelessness+/life: lifeless, lifelike, lifer, lifes, lives, pro-life/lifelike: unlifelike/lifer: lifers/pro-life: pro-lifer/pro-lifer: pro-lifers USAGE EXAMPLESShortly after he awoke, he said, he spotted Collins' lifeless body in the spa. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) A spotlight shone on the seemingly lifeless body of the Coyote. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) The result: users falling into a trancelike state, groaning and moaning, their eyes lifeless and their movements slow and seemingly mechanical. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1adj deprived of life; no longer living a lifeless body Syn exanimate dead no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life 2adj destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly Syn empty holding or containing nothing 3adj lacking animation or excitement or activity it was a lifeless party until she arrived Syn unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull 4adj not having the capacity to support life a lifeless planet Syn dead not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat |
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