1. 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" 
2. 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" 
3. Very tired
   "I'm dead after that long trip"
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1. People who are no longer living
   "they buried the dead" 
2. A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
   "the dead of winter"

1. Quickly and without warning
   - abruptly, suddenly, short 
2. Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
   "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
   - absolutely, perfectly, utterly

Derived forms: deader, deadest, deads

See also: aliveness, animation, asleep, assassinated, at peace, at rest, bloodless, brain dead, breathless, cold, complete, d.o.a., deadly, deadness, deathlike, deathly, deceased, defunct, departed, doomed, exanimate, executed, exsanguine, exsanguinous, extinct, fallen, gone, inactive, inanimate, inelastic, inoperative, insensitive, late, life, lifeless, living, murdered, noncurrent, nonextant, nonresonant, nonviable, out, out of play, precise, pulseless, slain, standing, stillborn, stone-dead, tired, uncharged, unprofitable, unreverberant, vitality

Type of: people, time

Antonym: alive, live, living

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