English Explanatory Dictionary

dead

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
  2. Devoid of living things; barren.
  3. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  4. Utterly exhausted.
  5. So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
  6. Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
  7. Without emotion; impassive.
  8. Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
  9. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  10. Unproductive; fallow.
  11. Past, bygone, vanished.
  12. Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
adv
  1. Exactly.
  2. Very, absolutely, extremely.
  3. Suddenly and completely.
  4. As if dead.
noun
  1. Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
  2. Those who have died: dead people.
noun
  1. (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
  2. Clipping of deadlift.
verb
  1. To prevent by disabling; to stop.
  2. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  3. To kill.
  4. To discontinue or put an end to (something).
noun
  1. Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.
  2. Acronym of destruction of enemy air defense(s).

Pronunciation

dĕd /dɛd/ en-us-dead.ogg en-au-dead.ogg /diːd/

Word forms

dead deader deadest deads deading deaded

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.

Synonyms

asleep at rest blessed cadaverous clay-cold deceased resting decomposed defunct departed expired extinct fey gone good inanimate inert kaput killed late lifeless living impaired low no longer with us no more perished reposing six feet deep six feet under stiff unalive unalived wasted whilom with God RIP mul:💀 crying LMAO ROFL mul:😭 nadir

Antonyms

alive live living bustling busy crowded hopping lively noisy quick

Related words

(to be) at peace (to be) at the end of the road (to be) bereft of life (to be) belly up (to have) bitten the big one (to have) bitten the dust (to have) bought the farm (to be) brown bread (to have) ceased to be (to be) checked out (to be) dead and gone (to be) dead as a dodo (to be) dead as a doornail (to be) dead as a doorknob (to be) dead as a duck (to be) dead as a haddock (to be) dead as a hammer (to be) dead as a herring (to be) dead as a mackerel (to be) dead as a nit (to be) dead as a pickled herring (to be) dead as a stump (to be) dead as a turd (to be) dead as a turd in a milk bucket (to be) dead as dishwater (to be) dead as mutton (to be) dead as stone (to be) dead as wood (to be) deader than dead (to be) deader than road kill (to go) feet first (to be) food for worms (to be) gone away (to have) gone on to one's reward (to have) gone to be with Jesus (to have) gone to heaven (to have) gone to one's final resting place (to have) gone to paradise (to have) gone to sing with the angels (to have) gone to the Great Beyond (to have) gone to the next life (to be) in Abraham's bosom (to be) in heaven (to be) in paradise (to be) in the grave (to have) joined the choir invisible (to have) kicked the bucket (to have) met one's end (to have) met one's maker (to be) no longer with us (to be) offed (to be) passed away (to have) passed on (to be) pining for the fjords (to be) pushing up the daisies (to be) resting in peace (to have) run down the curtain (to have) seen the reaper (to have) shuffled off this mortal coil (to be) six feet under

Derived words

alveolar dead space anatomic dead space beat a dead horse better dead than red better to be late than be dead on time bottom dead center brain dead braindead brain-dead card-dead civilly dead clinically dead come back from the dead cut someone dead dead against dead air dead-air space dead-alive dead amiss dead-and-alive dead and buried dead and gone dead angle dead arm syndrome dead as a dodo dead as a doorknob dead as a doornail dead as a herring dead as a kipper dead as a mackerel dead as ditch-water dead as Hector dead asleep deadass dead ball dead-ball era dead bat deadbeat dead beat dead-beat dead bedroom dead bell dead bird dead block dead-blow deadblow dead body dead bolt deadbolt deadborn dead-born dead-bug dead cake dead calm deadcart dead cat dead-cat bounce dead cat bounce dead-center dead center

Translations

Afrikaans: dood Ainu: チ Albanian: vdekur Gheg Albanian: shkum Aleut: asxaanax Southern Altai: ӧлгӧн Southern Altai: ӧлӱ Arabic: مَيِّت Arabic: ميت Armenian: մեռած Aromanian: mortu Asturian: muertu Aymara: jiwata Azerbaijani: ölü Bashkir: үлгән Bashkir: үле Belarusian: мёртвы Bengali: মৃত Bengali: মুর্দা Breton: maro Bulgarian: мъ́ртъв Burmese: သေ Catalan: mort Cebuano: patay Chamicuro: kashele'taka Chechen: делла Cherokee: ᎤᏲᎱᏒᎢ Chinese Mandarin: 死的 Crimean Tatar: ölü Czech: mrtvý Dalmatian: muart Danish: død Dutch: dood Dutch: dode Dutch: overleden Dutch: gestorven Esperanto: morta Estonian: surnud Faroese: deyður Finnish: kuollut Finnish: vainaja Finnish: raato Finnish: haaska Finnish: uhri Finnish: eloton Franco-Provençal: môrt French: mort West-Frisian: dea West-Frisian: deade Friulian: muart Galician: morto Georgian: მკვდარი Georgian: გარდაცვლილი Georgian: მიცვალებული German: tot German: gestorben
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