dead


dead - noun

  • people who are no longer living
  • a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

    • dead - adjective

    • 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
    • very tired
    • unerringly accurate
    • physically inactive
    • (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
    • devoid of physical sensation; numb
    • lacking acoustic resonance
    • not yielding a return
    • not circulating or flowing
    • not surviving in active use
    • lacking resilience or bounce
    • out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
    • no longer having force or relevance
    • complete
    • drained of electric charge; discharged
    • devoid of activity

    dead - adverb

    • quickly and without warning
    • completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

    dead - thesaurus

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


    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

    d is 2 e is 1 a is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 6

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