dead

English

/dɛd/, /diːd/

adj
Definitions
  • (not comparable) No longer living.
  • (hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  • (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  • Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  • Without emotion.
  • Stationary; static.
  • Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  • Unproductive.
  • (not comparable) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  • (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  • (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
  • (not comparable) No longer used or required.
  • (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
  • (not comparable) Not in play.
  • (not comparable) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  • (not comparable) Tagged out.
  • (not comparable) Full and complete.
  • (not comparable) Exact.
  • Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  • Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  • (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
  • (legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  • (rare) Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ded inherited from Old English dēad inherited from Proto-Germanic *daudaz (dead) root from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰew-

Gloss

die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle

Concept
Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

暗, 闇, 冥

Emoji
🎲

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