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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working |
| Synonyms: | barren, bygone, defunct, departed, exhausted, extinct, gone, inactive, inoperable, inoperative, lost, obsolete, spent, stagnant, sterile, still, tired, unemployed, unprofitable, useless, vanished, wearied, worn, worn out |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animate, animated, live, operative, working |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, total |
| Synonyms: | absolute, bloody, downright, entire, final, out-and-out, outright, perfect, sure, thorough, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, whole |
| Antonyms: | continuing, enduring, incomplete, unfinished |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | completely, totally |
| Synonyms: | absolutely, direct, directly, due, entirely, exactly, right, straight, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly |
| Antonyms: | incompletely |
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bygone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the past |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, archaic, belated, dated, dead, defunct, departed, down memory lane, erstwhile, extinct, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, in oblivion, late, lost, of old, of yore, old-fashioned, old-time, olden, oldfangled, one-time, out-of-date, previous, quondam, sometime, vanished, water over the dam, water under the bridge |
| Antonyms: | modern, new, recent |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victim |
| Synonyms: | dead, death toll, fatality, injured, killed, loss, missing, prey, sufferer, wounded |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aloof, unresponsive |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, cold-blooded, cool, dead, distant, emotionless, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, impersonal, imperturbable, indifferent, inhibited, inhospitable, joyless, lukewarm, matter-of-fact, passionless, phlegmatic, reserved, reticent, spiritless, standoffish, stony, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unmoved, unresponsive, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | animated, ardent, eager, enthusiastic, excited, fervid, friendly, interested, sympathetic, warm, zealous |
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