LookItUpdead
Meaning in simple English
US /dɛd/ · UK /ded/
dead means: No longer alive.
adjective
NOT ALIVEA1
No longer alive.
- The bird is dead.
- They found several dead fish in the lake.
- Her grandfather has been dead for years.
NO POWERB1
Unable to work because there is no electricity, power, or signal.
- My phone is dead.
- The car had a dead battery.
- We tried calling, but the line was dead.
NO FEELINGB2
Unable to feel anything in a part of your body.
- My arm feels dead.
- She woke up with a dead leg.
- His hand was dead after he slept on it.
WITHOUT LIFEB2
Having no living plants, animals, or other forms of life.
- They explored a dead planet.
- The pollution left a dead landscape behind.
- Could anything grow in this dead soil?
adverb
COMPLETELY EXACTLYB1
Completely or exactly, used to make a description stronger.
- You are dead right.
- The village is dead ahead.
- She stopped dead when she saw the snake.
LIKE DEATHB2
In a way that seems like death, with extreme tiredness, silence, stillness, or lack of color.
- I was dead tired.
- The children were dead asleep.
- She stood dead still behind the door.
noun
PEOPLE WHO DIEDB2
People who have died, considered as a group.
- They buried the dead.
- A memorial honors the dead from the war.
- The living gathered to remember the dead.
DEEPEST POINTC1
The time when night is darkest or winter is coldest and quietest.
- A door opened in the dead of night.
- We visited the cabin in the dead of winter.
- She heard footsteps during the dead of night.
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