| 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” |
| 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” |
| adjective | very tired “was all in at the end of the day” |
| adjective | unerringly accurate “a dead shot” |
| 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” |
| adjective | devoid of physical sensation; numb “his gums were dead from the novocain” |
| adjective | lacking acoustic resonance “dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs” |
| adjective | not yielding a return “dead capital” |
| adjective | not circulating or flowing “dead air” |
| 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” |
| adjective | no longer having force or relevance “a dead issue” |
| adjective | complete “came to a dead stop” |
| adjective | drained of electric charge; discharged “a dead battery” |
| 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” |
| deadness | noun | the inanimate property of something that has died |
| numbness | noun | the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally |
| stagnancy | noun | inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation |
| stagnate | verb | cause to stagnate |