I. adjective
1.
devoid of life
a dead person
Synonyms: asleep, cold, deceased, defunct, departed, exanimate, extinct, inanimate, late, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated
Related Word: bloodless, breathless; gone, reposing; inactive, inert; belowground, buried
Idioms: dead as a doornail, gone the way of all flesh, out of one's misery, pushing up daisies
Contrasted words: animate, animated, living, vital; being, existing; active, live
Antonyms: alive
2.
Synonyms: deathly 1, corpselike, corpsy, deadened, deadly, deathful, deathlike
Related Word: insensible, insentient, numb, unfeeling, unresponsive; inanimate, unconscious
Contrasted words: feeling, responsive, sensitive, sentient; animate, animated, living, spirited, vivacious
Antonyms: alive
3.
Synonyms: numb 1, anesthetized, asleep, benumbed, deadened, insensible, insensitive, numbed, senseless, unfeeling
4.
Synonyms: obsolete , disused, extinct, outmoded, outworn, passé, superseded
Antonyms: living; viable
5.
Synonyms: extinct 2, bygone, defunct, departed, gone, lost, vanished
6.
Synonyms: dull 7, blind, dim, flat, lackluster, lusterless, mat, muted
Related Word: bleak, dismal
Contrasted words: glorious, resplendent
7.
Synonyms: utter , absolute, *||bloody, complete, damned, downright, out-and-out, outright, perfect, unmitigated
II. adverb
Synonyms: directly 1, direct, due, right, straight, straightly, undeviatingly