dead

dead is a 4-letter English word with 41 senses as adjective, adverb, noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 41 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
2. adjective. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
3. adjective. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
4. adjective. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
5. adjective. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
6. adjective. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
7. adjective. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
8. adjective. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
9. adjective. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
10. adjective. Bringing death; deadly.
11. adjective. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
12. adjective. Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
13. adjective. Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
14. adjective. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
15. adjective. Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
16. adverb. To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
17. noun. The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
18. noun. One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
19. transitive verb. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
20. intransitive verb. To die; to lose life or force.
21. noun. people who are no longer living

    "they buried the dead"

22. noun. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

    "the dead of winter"

23. adjective. devoid of activity

    "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

24. adjective. physically inactive

    "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

25. adjective. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

    "the nerve is dead"

    "a dead pallor"

26. adjective. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat

    "Mars is a dead planet"

    "dead soil"

27. adjective. drained of electric charge; discharged

    "a dead battery"

    "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

    Synonyms: drained

28. adjective. complete

    "came to a dead stop"

    "utter seriousness"

    Synonyms: utter

29. adjective. no longer having force or relevance

    "a dead issue"

30. adjective. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

    "a dead telephone line"

    "the motor is dead"

31. adjective. lacking resilience or bounce

    "a dead tennis ball"

32. adjective. not surviving in active use

    "Latin is a dead language"

33. adjective. not circulating or flowing

    "dead air"

    "dead water"

    Synonyms: stagnant

34. adjective. unerringly accurate

    "a dead shot"

    "took dead aim"

35. adjective. not yielding a return

    "dead capital"

    "idle funds"

    Synonyms: idle

36. adjective. lacking acoustic resonance

    "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"

    "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

37. adjective. devoid of physical sensation; numb

    "his gums were dead from the novocain"

    "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"

    Synonyms: deadened

38. adjective. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

    "passersby were dead to our plea for help"

    "numb to the cries for mercy"

    Synonyms: numb

39. adjective. very tired

    "was all in at the end of the day"

    "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"

    Synonyms: beat, bushed

40. adverb. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

    "an absolutely magnificent painting"

    "a perfectly idiotic idea"

    Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly

41. adverb. quickly and without warning

    "he stopped suddenly"

    Synonyms: abruptly, short, suddenly

Synonyms

drained, utter, stagnant, idle, deadened, numb, beat, bushed, absolutely, perfectly, utterly, abruptly, short, suddenly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dead:

dade, deda, edda

Common word forms

deads, deaden, deader, deadly, deadest, deading, deadness

Words from these letters

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