ˈlīflə̇s adjective
Etymology: Middle English lifles, from Old English līflēas, from līf life + -lēas -less — more at life
: having no life:
a. : having ceased to live : deprived of life : dead
a lifeless carcass
b. : of a kind that is without life : inanimate
as cold and lifeless as marble — W.M.Thackeray
animate the lifeless clay — Mary W. Shelley
c. : lacking qualities expressive of life and vigor : colorless , dull
a speech more lifeless … than most of its mechanical type — S.H.Adams
a lifeless voice
d. : having the appearance of being dead
that lifeless but yet breathing creature — Anthony Trollope
e. : destitute of living beings
the plain lay dark … and lifeless — O.E.Rölvaag