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dead
adjective as in no longer alive
Weak matches
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
Strongest matches
Weak matches
anesthetized, apathetic, callous, deadened, frigid, senseless, spiritless, torpid, unanimated
adjective as in not working
Strongest matches
adjective as in without vitality; boring; dull
Strongest matches
boring, flat, spiritless, unanimated, uninteresting, vapid, wooden
Strong match
adverb as in completely or exactly
Strong matches
Weak matches
direct, directly, entirely, exactly, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Example Sentences
A missing crew member from the cargo ship is presumed dead after a search and rescue operation was called off late on Monday.
A crew member from the cargo ship was still missing and presumed dead after a search and rescue operation ended on Monday evening, according to Transport Minister Mike Kane.
Police are investigating whether a 40-year-old woman who was shot dead in a block of flats was mistaken for someone else.
It went dead on 43,690 customers who had been waiting 70 minutes to reach an adviser in the first 11 months of the 2023-24 financial year.
What are your thoughts on James Carville telling the Democrats to "roll over and play dead" in his recent op-ed in the New York Times?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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