n. Function: adjective
1 devoid of life FF1C; a dead person FF1E;
Synonyms: asleep, cold, deceased, defunct, departed, exanimate, extinct, inanimate, late, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: DEATHLY 1, corpselike, corpsy, deadened, deadly, deathful, deathlike
Related Words: insensible, insentient, numb, unfeeling, unresponsive; inanimate, unconscious
Contrasted Words: feeling, responsive, sensitive, sentient; animate, animated, living, spirited, vivacious
Antonyms: alive
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Synonyms: NUMB 1, anesthetized, asleep, benumbed, deadened, insensible, insensitive, numbed, senseless, unfeeling
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Synonyms: OBSOLETE , disused, extinct, outmoded, outworn, passé, superseded
Antonyms: living; viable
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Synonyms: EXTINCT 2, bygone, defunct, departed, gone, lost, vanished
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Synonyms: DULL 7, blind, dim, flat, lackluster, lusterless, mat, muted
Related Words: bleak, dismal
Contrasted Words: glorious, resplendent
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Synonyms: UTTER , absolute, *||bloody, complete, damned, downright, out-and-out, outright, perfect, unmitigated