Definitions for dead

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Spelling: [ded]

IPA: /dɛd/

Dead is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in dead (adde).

Definitions for dead

noun

1. the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.:
2. the dead, dead persons collectively:

Idioms

1. dead in the water, completely inactive or inoperable; no longer in action or under consideration:
2. dead to rights, in the very act of committing a crime, offense, or mistake; red-handed.

adverb

1. absolutely; completely:
2. with sudden and total stoppage of motion, action, or the like:
3. directly; exactly; straight:

adjective

1. no longer living; deprived of life:
2. brain-dead.
3. not endowed with life; inanimate:
4. resembling death; deathlike:
5. bereft of sensation; numb:
6. lacking sensitivity of feeling; insensitive:
7. incapable of being emotionally moved; unresponsive:
8. (of an emotion) no longer felt; ended; extinguished:
9. no longer current or prevalent, as in effect, significance, or practice; obsolete:
10. no longer functioning, operating, or productive:
11. not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale:
12. utterly tired; exhausted:
13. (of a language) no longer in use as a sole means of oral communication among a people:
14. without vitality, spirit, enthusiasm, or the like:
15. lacking the customary activity; dull; inactive:
16. complete; absolute:
17. sudden or abrupt, as the complete stoppage of an action:
18. put out; extinguished:
19. without resilience or bounce:
20. infertile; barren:
21. exact; precise:
22. accurate; sure; unerring:
23. direct; straight:
24. tasteless or flat, as a beverage:
25. flat rather than glossy, bright, or brilliant:
26. without resonance; anechoic:
27. not fruitful; unproductive:
28. Law. deprived of civil rights so that one is in the state of civil death, especially deprived of the rights of property.
29. Sports. out of play:
30. (of a golf ball) lying so close to the hole as to make holing on the next stroke a virtual certainty.
31. (of type or copy) having been used or rejected.
32. Electricity. free from any electric connection to a source of potential difference and from electric charge. not having a potential different from that of the earth.
33. Metallurgy. fully killed. unresponsive to heat treatment.
34. (of the mouth of a horse) no longer sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
35. noting any rope in a tackle that does not pass over a pulley or is not rove through a block.

Origin of dead

before 950; Middle English deed, Old English dēad; cognate with Gothic dauths, German tot, Old Norse daudhr; orig. past participle See die¹

Examples for dead

The face of the maid that served him had been no heaven for the souls of dead flowers.

His eyes were closed, his face a dead, chalky white, and his body hung limp.

The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.

Say, Myrtle, on the dead, he spends money just like a young Jew trying to be white!

Was his father still alive, or was this letter a communication from the dead?

Sybil is dead, as is Matthew; Gregson is missing with dark hints about his fate.

Afterward, I looked downward, and saw my dead body lying on a couch.

Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.