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dead
adjective as in no longer alive
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asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, cadaverous, checked out, cut off, defunct, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, liquidated, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace
adjective as in physically or emotionally numb; insensitive
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anesthetized, apathetic, callous, deadened, frigid, senseless, spiritless, torpid, unanimated
adjective as in not working
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adjective as in without vitality; boring; dull
Strongest matches
boring, flat, spiritless, unanimated, uninteresting, vapid, wooden
Strong match
adverb as in completely or exactly
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direct, directly, entirely, exactly, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Example Sentences
This week there was fresh hope for an end to the war in Gaza, yet another French prime minister resigned, and country legend Dolly Parton had to reassure fans that she wasn't dead.
“Today is 25 months since my brother’s been dead,” she said.
After officers arrived at the scene of the crash, they found a third person, who was unresponsive and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the release.
“Don’t worry, Dad, we were happy, at first, and that’s enough,” thinks the burn victim, now grown up, about his father, now dead.
Opinion polls have shown consistently that a majority of Israelis are prepared to end the Gaza war if the hostages, living and dead, come home.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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