The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - deadadj.

1) deceased, defunct, extinct, gone, departed, late, lifeless, no more, Colloq done for, Slang Brit gone for a burton: Both his parents are dead, and his only brother lives in Australia. Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime. 2) insensate, insensible, numb, paralysed, benumbed, unfeeling: After the accident, my left thumb was completely dead. 3) insensible, unconscious, out, dead to the world, deathlike, deathly: At the news of her son, she fell in a dead faint. 4) insensitive, unemotional, unfeeling, emotionless, apathetic, lukewarm, cool, cold, frigid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested; numb, wooden, callous, hardened, impervious, inured, inert: He has always been dead to others' problems. 5) out, smothered, extinguished: The fire is dead. 6) inanimate, lifeless, inert, inorganic: Dead stones speak volumes to the geologist. 7) extinct, obsolete, perished, past, outmoded, disused, expired, pass‚: Latin is a dead language. 8) barren, unfruitful, infertile, unproductive: That area off the coast is dead as far as fishing goes. 9) tired (out) , exhausted, worn out, fatigued, tired out, spent, collapsing, in a state of collapse, Slang bushed, beat, Brit knackered, US and Canadian pooped: We were completely dead after the hike into town. 1) 0 dull, lustreless, flat, neutral, vapid, empty, bland, colourless, grey, beige, dun: The walls of the prison were painted a dead white. 1) 1 stagnant, motionless, still, standing, static, inert, unmoving, inactive, quiet, calm: There were small pools of dead water covered with a green slime. Without a breath of air stirring, the boat was dead in the water. 12 boring, dull, tedious, tiresome, monotonous, prosaic, uninteresting, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, commonplace, dry, insipid, bland, flat, two-dimensional, lifeless, stiff, rigid, stony: The play was bad, the performance dead. 1) 3 dull, muffled, deadened, anechoic, unresounding, non-resonant: One room in the laboratory was built to be dead to all sound. 1) 4 complete, entire, total, absolute, downright, thorough, through and through, utter, all-out, out-and-out, unqualified, unrelieved, unbroken, categorical, outright: My investment in the anti-gravity pill has so far been a dead loss. 15 profound, deep: I fell into a dead sleep. 1) 6 sudden, abrupt, complete, full: The train came to a dead stop. 1) 7 certain, sure, unerring, exact, precise, accurate, crack: According to the records, Calamity Jane was a dead shot. --adv. 1) 8 completely, entirely, absolutely, totally, utterly, categorically, thoroughly, unconditionally, unqualifiedly: You are dead right about Pontefract. 1) 9 completely, entirely, absolutely, totally; abruptly, suddenly: He stopped dead in his tracks and stared at me. 2) 0 directly, exactly, precisely: An enormous maelstrom lay dead ahead of the fragile craft. --n. 2) 1 depth(s) , extreme, midst, middle: She used to visit his room in the dead of night.