Definitions for lifeless

lifeless life·less

Spelling: [lahyf-lis]
IPA: /ˈlaɪf lɪs/

Lifeless is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in lifeless (eefillss).

Definitions for lifeless

adjective

  1. not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate:
  2. destitute of living things:
  3. deprived of life; dead:
  4. without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid:
  5. insensible, as a person who has fainted.

Origin of lifeless

before 1000; Middle English lifles, Old English līflēas. See life, -less

Examples for lifeless

As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever.

But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.

As if, after all the above, one would want anything that reeked of lifeless imitation.

On entering the basilica Pierre had fancied that it was quite empty and lifeless.

Overcome by the dangerous situation in which I saw my royal mistress, I myself was carried out of the room in a lifeless state.

On 319 the next day the lifeless body of John, was brought into the fort.

In that image too, a young boy stands only feet from a lifeless corpse bound to a cross and publicly displayed.

"Yes," he has explained it to me, he said in a lifeless voice.

For fifteen years it had been standing there cold and lifeless.

Villagers remember also the image of a mother and daughter, who died holding onto one another in a “lifeless embrace.”

Word Value for lifeless
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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