Synonyms of the word

dead

• adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
• adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• adj. Without emotion.
• adj. Stationary; static.
• adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• adj. Unproductive.
• adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
• adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
• adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
• adj. (not comparable) Exact.
• adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
• adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• adv. (degree) Exactly right.
• adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
• adv. As if dead.
• n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
• v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
• v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

abruptly

• adv. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously.

absolute

• adj. (obsolete) Absolved; free.
• adj. (obsolete) Disengaged from accidental circumstances.
• adj. (archaic) Complete in itself; perfect.
• adj. (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence.
• adj. (obsolete) Absorbed in (e.g. an occupation).
• adj. Pure; unmixed.
• adj. (figuratively) Complete; utter; outright; unmitigated; entire; total; not qualified or diminished in any…
• adj. Unconditional; free from any conditions, limitations, and relations;.
• adj. Authoritative; peremptory.
• adj. Positive; unquestionable; peremptory.
• adj. Real; actual.
• adj. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person or prediction).
• adj. Free from conditional limitations; operating or existing in full under all circumstances without variation.
• adj. (law) Complete; unconditional; final; without encumbrances; not liable to change or cancellation.
• adj. (philosophy) Existing, able to be thought of, or able to be viewed without relation to other things.
• adj. (philosophy) Fundamental; ultimate; intrinsic; free from the variability and error natural to the human…
• adj. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement not comparative or relative.
• adj. (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative…
• adj. (art) Concerned entirely with expressing beauty and feelings, lacking meaningful reference.
• adj. (dance) Utilizing the body to express ideas, independent of music and costumes.
• adj. (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
• adj. (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers; unconditional.
• n. That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
• n. Anything that is absolute.
• n. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the…
• n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which…
• n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.
• n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
• n. Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes.

absolutely

• adv. In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
• adv. Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.
• adv. (grammar) In a manner that does not take an object.
• interj. Yes; certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

asleep

• adj. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
• adj. (slang) Inattentive.
• adj. (of a body part) Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness.
• adj. (euphemistic) dead.

assassinated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of assassinate.

barren

• adj. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
• adj. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
• adj. Bleak.
• adj. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
• adj. Mentally dull; stupid.
• n. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bloodless

• adj. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
• adj. Taking place without loss of blood.
• adj. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.

breathless

• adj. Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
• adj. That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
• adj. Not breathing; apparently dead.
• adj. Having no wind; still, calm or airless.

bushed

• adj. (informal) Very tired; exhausted.

cold

• adj. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
• adj. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
• adj. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
• adj. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
• adj. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
• adj. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
• adj. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
• adj. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
• adj. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
• adj. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
• adj. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare…
• adj. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
• n. A condition of low temperature.
• n. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and…
• adv. While at low temperature.
• adv. Without preparation.
• adv. With finality.
• adv. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

complete

• v. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
• v. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
• adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
• adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
• adj. Generic intensifier.
• adj. (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
• adj. (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
• adj. (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
• adj. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed…
• adj. (computing theory) With respect to a complexity class, used of a problem that is in that class and such…

deadened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of deaden.

deathlike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of death.
• adj. (obsolete) Deadly.

deathly

• adj. Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
• adj. Fatal, causing death.
• adj. Extreme.
• adv. In a way that resembles death.
• adv. Extremely, dreadfully.

deceased

• adj. No longer alive, dead.
• adj. Belonging to the dead.
• adj. (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law,…
• n. A dead person.
• n. (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law,…

defunct

• adj. (now rare) Deceased, dead.
• adj. No longer in use, inactive.
• adj. (computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes…
• adj. (business) No longer in business or service.
• adj. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
• v. To make defunct.
• n. The dead person (referred to).

departed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of depart.
• adj. (euphemistic) dead.
• n. (euphemistic) A dead person or persons.

doomed

• adj. Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of doom.

drained

• adj. Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
• adj. Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of drain.

exanimate

• adj. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
• adj. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

executed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of execute.

exsanguine

• adj. Lacking blood; anemic.

exsanguinous

• adj. Alternative form of exsanguious.

extinct

• adj. (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.).
• adj. No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
• adj. No longer in existence; having died out.
• adj. (volcanology) No longer actively erupting.

fallen

• v. past participle of fall.
• adj. having dropped by the force of gravity.
• adj. (literary) killed in battle.
• adj. having lost one's chastity.
• adj. having collapsed.
• n. (plural only) The dead.
• n. (plural only) Casualties of battle or war.
• n. (countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.

gone

• v. past participle of go.
• adj. Away, having left.
• adj. (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
• adj. No longer existing, having passed.
• adj. Used up.
• adj. Dead.
• adj. (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
• adj. (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
• adj. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
• prep. (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

inactive

• adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
• adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
• adj. Retired from duty or service.
• adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
• adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

inanimate

• adj. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
• adj. Not being, and never having been alive.
• adj. (grammar) Not animate.
• n. Something that is not alive.
• v. (obsolete) To animate.

inelastic

• adj. lacking elasticity; inflexible, unyielding.

inoperative

• adj. not working or functioning; either idle or broken.
• adj. (law) No longer legally binding.

insensitive

• adj. Not expressing normal physical feeling.
• adj. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.

late

• adj. Near the end of a period of time.
• adj. Specifically, near the end of the day.
• adj. (usually not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period.
• adj. Not arriving until after an expected time.
• adj. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
• adj. (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions…
• adj. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
• adj. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
• adv. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
• adv. formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.

lifeless

• adj. inanimate; having no life.
• adj. dead; having lost life.
• adj. uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life.
• adj. dull or lacking vitality.

malfunctioning

• v. present participle of malfunction.
• n. A malfunction.

murdered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of murder.

non-living

• adj. Not living; inanimate.

nonconscious

• adj. Not conscious.

noncurrent

• adj. Not current.

nonextant

• adj. Not extant.

nonfunctional

• adj. Not functional; useless; broken.

nonliving

• adj. Alternative spelling of non-living.

nonresonant

• adj. That does not resonate.
• adj. That does not involve resonance.

nonviable

• adj. Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.

numb

• adj. Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.
• adj. Not able to react, surprised, shocked.
• adj. Causing numbness.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become numb.

out

• adv. Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
• adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) Visible in the sky; not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
• adv. Away from; at a distance.
• adv. Away from the inside or the centre.
• adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
• adv. To the end; completely.
• adv. Used to intensify or emphasize.
• adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing…
• adv. (procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission…
• prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside.
• prep. (colloquial) outside.
• n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
• n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of…
• n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to…
• n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
• n. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
• n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
• n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender.
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret…
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
• v. To become apparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
• adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
• adj. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman: having caused an out called on himself while batting under…
• adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender.

people

• n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
• n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
• n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
• n. One's colleagues or employees.
• n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
• n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
• n. plural of person.
• v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
• v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
• v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

perfectly

• adv. With perfection.
• adv. Wholly, completely, totally.

precise

• adj. Exact, accurate.
• adj. (sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This…
• v. (used by non-native speakers or in jargons, transitive) To make or render precise.

pulseless

• adj. (medicine) Having no pulse.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

slain

• v. past participle of slay.
• n. (with "the") Those who have been killed.

stagnant

• adj. Lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.

standing

• v. present participle of stand.
• adj. Erect, not cut down.
• adj. Performed from an erect position.
• adj. Remaining in force or status.
• adj. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
• adj. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
• adj. Not movable; fixed.
• n. Position or reputation in society or a profession.
• n. Duration.
• n. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
• n. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
• n. (Britain) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles.
• n. (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the…

stillborn

• adj. Dead at birth.
• adj. (figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
• n. A baby that is born dead.

suddenly

• adv. Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

tired

• v. simple past tense and past participle of tire.
• adj. In need of some rest or sleep.
• adj. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
• adj. Overused, cliché.
• adj. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent.

unanimated

• adj. Inanimate.
• adj. Not animated; lacking vivacity.

uncharged

• adj. (physics, chemistry) Not carrying an overall electric charge; neutral.
• adj. (law) Not charged with a criminal act.
• adj. Not charged for; given away for free.
• adj. (heraldry) Without a heraldic charge.

unprofitable

• adj. Not making a profit.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterly

• adv. completely, entirely, to the fullest extent.