dead

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Editorial note

"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.

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Quick take

people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dead gathered in one view.

noun

people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

noun

a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

adjective

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dead.

noun

people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

noun

a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

adjective

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

adjective

not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

adjective

very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"

adjective

unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

adjective

physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

adjective

(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

adjective

devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

adjective

lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

adjective

not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"

adjective

not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"

adjective

not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"

adjective

lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"

adjective

out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

adjective

no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"

adjective

complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"

adjective

drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

adjective

devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

adverb

quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

adverb

completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

See also: absolutely, perfectly, utterly

Example sentences

"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.

And that a "dead heat" doesn't mean it's a coin flip.

I think I know what the problem is; we're detecting HN as a dead page.

You try telling a 6 year old that her daddy has cancer and will be dead before she turns 8.

I know that I'm living on borrowed time right now and I could be dead at any moment.

' Programming isn't a dead end job any more than welding is a dead end job or painting.

I respond really negatively to the notion of 'dead end.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

The neurologist told her that nine times out of ten, the clot travels a different path, and the victim is left dead or braindead.

Most of the deadweight is outside Engineering teams because its hard to bullshit when you have to deliver a product.

Any company that has been around for as long as Microsoft, has a huge amount of dead weight in its mid-level management.

Google Reader kept the content of RSS feeds cached forever, meaning it was the last surviving record of a huge number of dead and deleted blogs.

This was not a "dead-end job", he was the first hire at a newly formed company, there was definitely an opportunity for him to grow his career in a highly lucrative field.

And _all_ of that interest was shot dead due to attempts to own identity by enforcing the use of real names[1].There are very real reasons why "average" people need alternate identities online.

Still, there are peripheral functions like business development, marketing, intellectual property, privacy, policy, etc., where you can always find a few deadbeats that talk slick, but don't seem to have much to show for their time except hiring more people and making a few high impact appearances at meetings.