nnoun.grouppeople who are no longer livingAntonyms:living
Hypernyms:people
Inherited Hypernyms:deadpeoplegroupabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:slain
Member Meronyms:dead person dead soul deceased deceased person decedent departed
nnoun.timea time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intenseHypernyms:time
Inherited Hypernyms:deadtimetime periodfundamental quantitymeasureabstractionentity
adjadj.allno longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have lifeAttributes:aliveness animation life living animation vitality
Examples:- the nerve is dead
- a dead pallor
- he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Antonyms:alive
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:asleep at peace at rest deceased departed gone assassinated bloodless exsanguine exsanguinous brain dead breathless inanimate pulseless cold d.o.a. deathlike deathly defunct doomed executed fallen late exanimate lifeless murdered nonviable slain stillborn stone-dead
adjadj.allnot showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heatExamples:- Mars is a dead planet
- dead soil
- dead coals
- the fire is dead
Antonyms:live
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:extinct out lifeless out of play
See also:extinct
adj satadj.allvery tiredDomain Usage:colloquialism
Synset:all in beat bushed
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:rested
Inherited Hypernyms:all in
Similar to:tired
adj satadj.allphysically inactiveExamples:- Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
Antonyms:active
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:extinct
adj satadj.all(followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsiveSynset:numb
Examples:- passersby were dead to our plea for help
- numb to the cries for mercy
Antonyms:sensitive
Derivationally Related Form:deadnessnumbness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:insensitive
adj satadj.alldevoid of physical sensation; numbSynset:deadened
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:sensitive
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:insensitive
adj satadj.alllacking acoustic resonanceExamples:- dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
- the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
Antonyms:reverberant
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:nonresonant unreverberant
adj satadj.allnot circulating or flowingSynset:stagnant
Examples:- dead air
- dead water
- stagnant water
Antonyms:running
Derivationally Related Form:stagnancydeadnessstagnate
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:standing
adj satadj.allnot surviving in active useAntonyms:extant
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:extinct nonextant
adj satadj.alllacking resilience or bounceAntonyms:elastic
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:inelastic
adj satadj.allout of use or operation because of a fault or breakdownExamples:- a dead telephone line
- the motor is dead
Antonyms:operative
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:inoperative
adj satadj.alldrained of electric charge; dischargedSynset:drained
Examples:- a dead battery
- left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
Antonyms:charged
Derivationally Related Form:deadness
Inherited Hypernyms:dead
Similar to:uncharged
advadv.allquickly and without warningSynset:abruptly short suddenly
Pertainyms:suddenabrupt
Inherited Hypernyms:abruptly
advadv.allcompletely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiersSynset:absolutely perfectly utterly
Examples:- 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
Pertainyms:perfectutterabsolute
Inherited Hypernyms:absolutely