1. [Adjective]: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

2. [Adjective]: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"

3. [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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

4. [Noun]: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

5. [Noun]: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

6. [Adverb]: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you''re perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

7. [Adverb]: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

8. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

9. no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"

10. not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"

11. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

12. lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

13. physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

14. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

15. no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"

16. lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"

17. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

18. not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"

19. devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

20. devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

1. inactive

2. extinct

3. inactive

4. asleep(p)

5. at_peace(p)

6. at_rest(p)

7. deceased

8. departed

9. gone

10. assassinated

11. bloodless

12. exsanguine

13. exsanguinous

14. brain_dead

15. breathless

16. inanimate

17. pulseless

18. cold

19. d.o.a.

20. deathlike

21. deathly

22. defunct

23. doomed

24. executed

25. fallen

26. late(a)

27. lifeless

28. exanimate

29. murdered

30. nonviable

31. slain

32. stillborn

33. stone-dead

34. barren

35. extinct

36. out(p)

37. lifeless

38. out_of_play(p)

39. nonconscious

40. unanimated

41. uncharged

42. noncurrent

43. inoperative

44. inelastic

45. extinct

46. nonextant

47. malfunctioning

48. nonfunctional

49. precise

50. unprofitable

51. unreverberant

52. nonresonant

53. insensitive

1. living

2. alive(p)

3. live

4. animate