Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
no longer alive:
Русский
By meaning 4
no longer alive:
fully and completely motionless:
without emotion:
broken or inoperable:
Deutsch
By meaning 9
no longer alive:
figuratively, not alive:
fully and completely motionless:
without emotion:
of a device: completely inactive; without power:
broken or inoperable:
no longer used or required:
sports: not in play:
experiencing pins and needles:

Examples

2457 sentences
  1. Both of the brothers are dead.

    Обидва брати померли. — Lumo

    ruОба брата мертвы. — Biga

    deDie beiden Brüder sind gestorben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I don't think Tom is dead.

    Я не думаю, що Том мертвий. — deniko

    ruЯ не думаю, что Том мёртв. — odexed

  3. I know that Tom isn't dead.

    Я знаю, що Том не вмер. — deniko

    ruЯ знаю, что Том не умер. — marafon

Meaning

30 senses
  1. (not comparable, usually)No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)

    All of my grandparents are dead.

    Have respect for the dead.

    tot, gestorben

    мёртвыйmjórtvyj, у́мершийúmeršij, до́хлыйdóxlyj

    ме́ртвийmértvyj

  2. (not comparable, usually)Utterly exhausted.

    bewegungslos, regungslos, erstarrt

    неподви́жныйnepodvížnyj

  3. (not comparable, usually)Without emotion; impassive.

    She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.

    reglos, unbewegt, stumpf

    безжи́зненныйbezžíznennyj, неодушевлённыйneoduševljónnyj

More meanings 27
  1. (not comparable, usually)Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.

    OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.

    Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.

    aus, abgeschaltet, leer

    до́хлыйdóxlyj

  2. (not comparable, usually)Broken or inoperable.

    That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.

    hinüber, im Eimer

    сло́манныйslómannyj

  3. (not comparable, usually)Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

    After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

    eingeschlafen

  4. (not comparable, usually)No longer used or required.

    There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.

    Is this beer glass dead?

    entbehrlich

  5. (not comparable, usually)Not in play.

    Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.

    aus, im Aus

  6. (excessive, not comparable, usually)Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

    leblos

    мёртвыйmjórtvyj

  7. Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:

    (Internet, excessive, not comparable, often, sometimes, usually)Dying of laughter.

  8. (not comparable, usually)Devoid of living things; barren.

    a dead planet

  9. (not comparable, usually)So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.

    He is dead to me.

    gestorben

More definitions
  • 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

Origin

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.

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Forms

deader, deadest
Comparativedeader Lesson
Superlativedeadest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Dying of laughter:RIPB2cryingROFL
Close in meaning
  • very tired:all inbeatbushed
  • (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive:numb
  • devoid of physical sensation; numb:deadened
  • not yielding a return:idle
  • not circulating or flowing:stagnant

Antonyms

9 antonyms
Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese:liveB1

Word family

5 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • dead or alive
  • was found dead
  • found dead in
  • dead body
  • a dead body
  • found dead
  • dead set against
  • battery is dead
  • a dead end
  • dead body in
  • already dead
  • found a dead

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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