DEAD

adjective deader · deadest

1. not comparable, usually No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.) All of my grandparents are dead.
2. not comparable, usually Devoid of living things; barren. a dead planet
3. excessive, not comparable, usually Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
4. not comparable, usually Utterly exhausted. “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”
5. not comparable, usually So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized. He is dead to me.
6. not comparable, usually Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead. "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
7. not comparable, usually Without emotion; impassive. She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
8. not comparable, usually Stationary; static; immobile or immovable. the dead load on the floor
9. not comparable, usually Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. dead air
10. not comparable, usually Unproductive; fallow. dead time
11. not comparable, usually Past, bygone, vanished. Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old, dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things.
12. not comparable, usually Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people. For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
13. not comparable, usually Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live. OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
14. not comparable, usually Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
15. not comparable, usually Broken or inoperable. That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
16. not comparable, usually No longer used or required. There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
17. not comparable, usually Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power. the dead spindle of a lathe
18. not comparable, usually Not in play. Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
19. not comparable, usually Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
20. not comparable, slang, usually Tagged out.
21. not comparable, usually Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life). dead stop
22. not comparable, usually Exact; on the dot. dead center
23. not comparable, usually Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
24. Internet, excessive, not comparable, often, sometimes, usually Dying of laughter. Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭
25. Internet, not comparable, often, sometimes, usually Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
26. not comparable, usually Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic. a dead floor
27. not comparable, obsolete, usually Bringing death; deadly. You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
28. not comparable, usually Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
29. especially, not comparable, often, rare, usually Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc). He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
30. not comparable, usually Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly. […] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.

Similar: asleep, at rest, blessed, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, breathless, resting, cold, decomposed, defunct, departed

adverb

1. colloquial, informal, not comparable Exactly. dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
2. colloquial, informal, not comparable Very, absolutely, extremely. dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy
3. not comparable Suddenly and completely. He stopped dead.
4. informal, not comparable As if dead. dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

noun

1. often, uncountable, with definite article Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. Near-synonym: nadir

noun

1. plural, plural only, with definite article Those who have died: dead people. the quick and the dead

noun deads

1. UK (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
2. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial Clipping of deadlift.deadlift

verb deads · deading · deaded

1. transitive To prevent by disabling; to stop. 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth. “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
2. transitive To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.
3. UK, US, slang, transitive To kill. I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
4. broadly, slang, transitive To discontinue or put an end to (something). "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."

noun

1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.diethyl azodicarboxylate
2. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of destruction of enemy air defense(s).destruction of enemy air defense(s)