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say it: ded
dead is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life". It is pronounced /ˈdɛd/ — ded. It carries 21 recorded senses.
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
“the nerve is dead”
“a dead pallor”
“he was marked as a dead man by the assassin”
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
“Mars is a dead planet”
“dead soil”
“dead coals”
“the fire is dead”
physically inactive
“Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range”
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
“passersby were dead to our plea for help”
“numb to the cries for mercy”
devoid of physical sensation; numb
“his gums were dead from the novocain”
“she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth”
“a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities”
lacking acoustic resonance
“dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs”
“the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio”
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
“a dead telephone line”
“the motor is dead”
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
“the dead of winter”
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
“an absolutely magnificent painting”
“a perfectly idiotic idea”
“you're perfectly right”
“utterly miserable”
“you can be dead sure of my innocence”
“was dead tired”
“dead right”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dead come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.