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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bit the dust, cold*, defunct, departed, exanimate, expired, extinct, finished, former, gave up the ghost, gone, inanimate, kicked the bucket, late, lifeless, lost, passed on, pushing up daisies |
| Antonyms: | alive, born, lively, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead, obsolete |
| Synonyms: | abolished, archaic, asleep, bygone, cold*, dead and gone, deceased, defunct, departed, disappeared, done for, doused, ended, exanimate, exterminated, extinguished, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, no longer known, out, outmoded, passed on, passé, snuffed out, superseded, terminated, unknown, vanished, vanquished, void |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, extant, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inanimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not alive, not organic |
| Synonyms: | azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, insentient, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
| Antonyms: | animate, living |
| Main Entry: | late |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bygone, cold, deceased, defunct, departed, erstwhile, ex-, exanimate, extinct, former, inanimate, lifeless, old, once, onetime, past, preceding, previous, quondam, sometime |
| Antonyms: | live |
| Main Entry: | lifeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not living, not containing living things |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bare, barren, brute, cold, comatose, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, desert, empty, exanimate, extinct, faint, inanimate, inert, inorganic, insensate, insensible, late, out cold, sterile, unconscious, uninhabited, waste |
| Antonyms: | alive, animate, living |
| Main Entry: | insentient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inanimate |
| Synonyms: | azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
| Notes: | insensate means without sensitivity or humane feeling; insentient means incapable of either |
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