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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
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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
Two people have been shot dead near a border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military and medics say.
I am here to commune with the dead.
Five minutes into his movie is all it took to realize I was dead wrong.
A man has been shot dead and a woman is in hospital following what police have described as a "deeply distressing incident" in a north London park.
Opposition leader Sussan Ley on Thursday said the coalition was "dead against" the new target, saying that it failed on both "cost and credibility".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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