English dictionary definition of:
Noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
Adjective
- devoid of activity
- physically inactive
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- complete
- no longer having force or relevance
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- lacking resilience or bounce
- not surviving in active use
- not circulating or flowing
- unerringly accurate
- not yielding a return
- lacking acoustic resonance
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- very tired
Adverb
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- quickly and without warning
Thesaurus
abruptly
absolutely
beat
bushed
deadened
drained
idle
numb
perfectly
short
stagnant
suddenly
utter
utterly
Spellzone course content
View spelling list Short /e/ spelled ea: Set 1 and
learn about the word dead in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 6. Short vowels e.g. e or ea? o or u? .
Scrabble score for dead
Scrabble score = 6
generated at 04:36:54 on 19-10-19
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