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What is the adjective for dead?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs die and dead which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dead
  1. (not comparable) No longer living.
  2. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Without emotion.
  5. Stationary; static.
  6. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  7. Unproductive.
  8. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
  9. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
  10. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
  11. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
  12. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
  13. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  14. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
  15. (not comparable) Full and complete.
  16. (not comparable) Exact.
  17. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  18. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
  19. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  20. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
  21. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  22. Synonyms:
      23. departed, deceased, late, lifeless, perished, fallen, inanimate, demised, lost, insensate, insentient, slain, slaughtered, breathless, inert, killed, murdered, still, cold, exanimate, lamented, unanimated, wasted, wiped out, asleep, cadaverous, down, erased, mortified, nonextant, spiritless, stiff, buried, liquidated, not breathing, offed, passed away, passed on, reposing, silent, at peace, bereft of life, no more, not existing, pushing up daisies, resting in peace, with God, bought the farm, checked out, cut off … more
  23. Examples:
      24. “The dead soldiers were honored for their courage and valor.”
      “He knew that he really needed to have a shower, but he felt dead to the world.”
      “I am feeling absolutely dead after a grueling, high-intensity workout.”
deadly
  1. (obsolete) Subject to death; mortal.
  2. Causing death; lethal.
  3. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
  4. (by extension) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
  5. (informal) Very boring.
  6. (informal) Excellent, awesome, cool.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. mortal, deathly, fatal, lethal, dangerous, destructive, pernicious, malignant, murderous, noxious, poisonous, terminal, toxic, harmful, injurious, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, devastating, dead, fell, incurable, killer, mortuary, pestilent, unhealthy, untreatable, virulent, vital, mephitic, nocuous, venomous, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, destroying, homicidal, internecine, killing, mortiferous, pestiferous, pestilential, ruthless, slaying, suicidal, violent, death-dealing … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “It describes what happens when a deadly plague strikes the French-Algerian town of Oran, and how various people react to it, especially when the whole town is quarantined.”
      “His face was deadly pale, and the blood trickling down lent a ghastly horror to his countenance.”
      “The Apaches and Comanches became deadly enemies, and their enmity was to affect Spanish policy toward these tribal groups.”
dying
  1. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
  2. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
  3. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. doomed, perishing, moribund, mortal, poisoned, near death, fading fast, sinking fast, near the end, at death's door, in extremis, passing away, breathing your last, done for, on its last legs, on the way out, on last leg, not long for this world, terminally ill, on your deathbed, with one foot in the grave, giving up the ghost, in the jaws of death, on the point of death, one foot in grave, fading, declining, decaying, failing rapidly, foundering, mortally ill, on your last legs, having one foot in the grave, withering, waning, crumbling, atrophying, sinking, on the decline, in decline, medium dead, at the end of the rope, at end of one's rope, slipping away, one foot in the grave, disintegrating, fey, succumbing, collapsing, fated … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “So how do you write a letter to your dying mother, a letter which both you and she know is basically a goodbye?”
      “It will wean us off the dying pillars of tourism and financial services.”
      “His dying wish was for a trip to Lourdes with his daughter, Shannon.”
deathly
  1. Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
  2. Deadly, fatal, causing death.
  3. Extreme.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. deadly, fatal, lethal, mortal, terminal, pestilent, murderous, baleful, fell, killer, malignant, destructive, mortiferous, incurable, pernicious, vital, noxious, pestilential, dangerous, baneful, harmful, virulent, life-threatening, poisonous, death-dealing, killing, injurious, toxic, nocuous, venomous, mephitic, ruinous, homicidal, deleterious, vicious, devastating, mortuary, internecine, final, pestiferous, causing death, cruel, bloodthirsty, disastrous, detrimental, untreatable, critical, serious, bloody, dead … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Anxiety would overwhelm him, and slowly, he succumbed to a deathly illness.”
      “She felt the color leave her face and a deathly chill creep over her.”
      “It is with deep regret and heaviness of heart that I am relating the deathly news of our guru's passing.”
deathful
  1. (archaic) Full of death or slaughter.
  2. (archaic) Liable to undergo death.
  3. Resembling death.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. deadly, deathlike, deathly, ghostly, cadaverous, corpselike, ghastly, deadened
  5. Examples:
      6. “And what we found was not horrible nor deathful, but bright, promising, scented like first fruits.”
      “You are not an artist by reproving nature into deathful sameness, but by animating your copy of her into vital variation.”
      “When a boy reads of the Desert of Sahara, he pictures it as terrible and deathful.”
deathlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of death.
  2. (obsolete) Deadly.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. deathly, cadaverous, ghostly, corpselike, skeletal, spectral, ghastly, ghostlike, deadly, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic, vampiric, wraithy, spiritual, supernatural, shadowy, spooky, eldritch, unearthly, apparitional, eidolic, otherworldly, mortuary, zombielike, zombiesque, other-worldly, deadened, deathful, tomblike, dead, mortal, corpse-like, unnatural, preternatural, ghoulish, phantomlike, demonic, extraterrestrial, demoniac, devilish, demonish, demonlike, ethereal, alien, demonly, sepulchral, hyperphysical, not of this world … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The dreamer eventually unravels the identity of the deathlike apparition.”
      “One is pale and deathlike while the other has the ruddy color of health and life.”
      “Others were bloated with faces puffed, but were they to be drained of that oedematous fluid, they would have been skinny and deathlike.”
deathy
  1. (obsolete) Relating to death.
  2. Misspelling of deathly.
  3. Examples:
      4. “I finish the last, trippy, deathy French roman policier and reach sunset as we curve round the bay at Montrose.”
      “An arm, on which the deathy skin clung to the bones, dragged rather than supported a languid infant.”
      “The Raven dislikes all animal food that has not a deathy smack.”
deadass
  1. (US) Boring.
  2. (African American Vernacular) Dead (serious).
deathworthy
  1. worthy of death, worthy of capital punishment
deathsome
  1. Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
deadish
  1. Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless.
deathward
  1. which leads toward death
deade
  1. Obsolete spelling of dead
deathproof
  1. Resistant to dying.
deathlier
  1. comparative form of deathly: more deathly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadlier, feller, more lethal, more mortal, more pestilent, more murderous, more baleful, more killer, more malignant, more destructive, more mortiferous, more pernicious, more vital, more noxious, more pestilential, more dangerous, more baneful, harmfuller, more virulent, more life-threatening, more poisonous, more killing, more injurious, more toxic, more nocuous, more venomous, more mephitic, deader, more ruinous, more deleterious, more devastating, viciouser, more final, more pestiferous, crueler, more disastrous, bloodthirstier, more detrimental, more critical, seriouser, bloodier, graver, violenter, more malevolent, unhealthier, more damaging, more infectious, more carcinogenic, more suicidal, more cannibalistic … more
deathliest
  1. superlative form of deathly: most deathly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadliest, fellest, most lethal, most mortal, most pestilent, most murderous, most baleful, most killer, most malignant, most destructive, most mortiferous, most pernicious, most vital, most noxious, most pestilential, most dangerous, most baneful, harmfullest, most virulent, most life-threatening, most poisonous, most killing, most injurious, most toxic, most nocuous, most venomous, most mephitic, deadest, most ruinous, most deleterious, most devastating, viciousest, most final, most pestiferous, cruelest, most disastrous, bloodthirstiest, most detrimental, most critical, seriousest, bloodiest, gravest, violentest, most malevolent, unhealthiest, most damaging, most infectious, most ruthless, most carcinogenic, most cannibalistic … more
deadlier
  1. comparative form of deadly: more deadly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deathlier, harmfuller, deader, feller, unhealthier, bloodthirstier, bloodier, crueler, violenter, more mortal, more lethal, more dangerous, more destructive, more pernicious, more malignant, more murderous, more noxious, more poisonous, more toxic, more injurious, more baleful, more baneful, more deleterious, more detrimental, more devastating, more killer, more pestilent, more virulent, more vital, more mephitic, more nocuous, more venomous, more cannibalistic, more carcinogenic, more killing, more mortiferous, more pestiferous, more pestilential, more ruthless, more suicidal, more life-threatening, more ruinous, more damaging, more hurtful, more disastrous, adverser, badder, more calamitous, eviller, more catastrophic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The toxin contained in the organs of fugu, or puffer fish, is said to be 1300 times deadlier than cyanide.”
      “He argues that participation in primitive warfare, in proportional terms, is often deadlier than participation in modern warfare.”
      “Since it first emerged in 1997, avian influenza has become deadlier and more resilient.”
deadliest
  1. superlative form of deadly: most deadly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deathliest, harmfullest, deadest, fellest, unhealthiest, bloodthirstiest, bloodiest, cruelest, violentest, most mortal, most lethal, most dangerous, most destructive, most pernicious, most malignant, most murderous, most noxious, most poisonous, most toxic, most injurious, most baleful, most baneful, most deleterious, most detrimental, most devastating, most killer, most pestilent, most virulent, most vital, most mephitic, most nocuous, most venomous, most cannibalistic, most carcinogenic, most killing, most mortiferous, most pestiferous, most pestilential, most ruthless, most suicidal, most life-threatening, most ruinous, most damaging, most hurtful, most disastrous, adversest, baddest, most calamitous, evillest, most catastrophic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some of the herbicide contained dioxin, one of the world's deadliest poisons.”
      “He was left for dead in the middle of the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing.”
      “Orissa was recently devastated by the deadliest cyclone of the century causing death and destruction on an unheard of scale.”
deadest
  1. (figurative or humorous) superlative form of dead: most dead.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. latest, lostest, stillest, coldest, stiffest, silentest, most lifeless, most inanimate, most insensate, most insentient, most breathless, most inert, most exanimate, most lamented, most wasted, most asleep, most cadaverous, most mortified, most spiritless, most buried, most liquidated, flattest, frigidest, numbest, dullest, hollowest, stoniest, blankest, glassiest, most indifferent, most unfeeling, most insensitive, most wooden, most unresponsive, most dispassionate, most emotionless, most impassive, most torpid, most unemotional, most unsympathetic, most apathetic, most benumbed, most callous, most deadpan, most inexpressive … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Here we have a maximum of equality and the deadest and most static of results.”
      “It is, I should hope, the deadest and most utterly inert little town in the British dominions.”
      “The trill continues in a long chain, desperate to evoke life from the deadest of instruments.”
died
  1. simple past tense and past participle of die
  2. Synonyms:
      3. perished, croaked, expired, deceased, departed, flatlined, exited, demised, dropped, fell, felled, fallen, succumbed, conked, went, gone, parted, drowned, suffocated, passed away, passed on, departed this life, dropped dead, ceased to exist, checked out, conked out, rested in peace, bit the dust, bitten the dust, kicked the bucket, breathed one's last, bought it, carked it, went belly up, gone belly up, went belly-up, gone belly-up, kicked it, pegged out, popped off, dropped off, gave up the ghost, given up the ghost, went bung, gone bung, pegged it, pushed up the daisies, relinquished life, snuffed it, crossed the Styx … more
deaded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dead
deading
  1. present participle of dead
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