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| Main Entry: | asleep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold*, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
| Antonyms: | attentive, awake, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | asleep, cold*, defunct, departed, extinct, finished, former, gone, inanimate, late, lifeless, lost, bit the dust, exanimate, expired, gave up the ghost, kicked the bucket, passed on, pushing up daisies |
| Antonyms: | alive, born, lively, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defunct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extinct, not functioning |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bygone, cold, dead, deceased, departed, done for*, down the drain*, gone, inanimate, inoperative, invalid, kaput*, late, lifeless, lost, nonexistent, obsolete, out of commission*, vanished, exanimate, expired, had it |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, live, operating, operative, valid, working, existent, functioning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dormant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive; sleeping |
| Synonyms: | asleep, comatose, down, fallow, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, passive, potential, quiescent, slack, sluggish, suspended, torpid, abeyant, closed down, hibernating, on the shelf, out of action, prepatent, sidelined, slumbering, smoldering |
| Antonyms: | active, lively |
| Main Entry: | extinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead, obsolete |
| Synonyms: | archaic, asleep, bygone, cold*, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, ended, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, out, outmoded, passé, superseded, unknown, vanished, void, abolished, dead and gone, disappeared, doused, exanimate, exterminated, extinguished, no longer known, passed on, snuffed out, terminated, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, extant, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not engaged in action; inert, lazy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, disengaged, do-nothing*, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, indolent, inoperative, jobless, latent, lax, lethargic, limp, low-key, motionless, ossified, out of commission*, out of work*, passive, quiescent, quiet, sedentary, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stable, static, still, torpid, unemployed, unoccupied, unused, abeyant, draggy, in holding pattern, mothballed, on hold, out of action, out of service |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, involved, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not moving; lifeless |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, dead, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, impassive, impotent, inactive, inanimate, indolent, languid, lazy, leaden, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, powerless, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unresponsive, languorous, slumberous, unreactive |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animated, lively, mobile, moving, working |
| Main Entry: | numb |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadened, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | aloof, apathetic, asleep, callous, casual, comatose, dazed, dead, detached, disinterested, frozen, indifferent, insensate, insensible, lethargic, listless, paralyzed, phlegmatic, remote, senseless, stupefied, torpid, unconcerned, unconscious, unfeeling, uninterested, anesthetized, benumbed, immobilized, incurious, insentient, numbed, stuporous, uncurious |
| Antonyms: | lively, responsive, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprepared |
| Synonyms: | asleep, daydreaming, inattentive, spaced out*, unsuspecting, asleep on the job, flat-footed, napping, unalert, unready, unvigilant, unwatchful, zoned out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, motionless, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unflappable, yielding, acquiescent, going through motions, hands off, moony, nonresistant, poker-faced*, unassertive, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | active, dynamic, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, asleep*, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, heedless, hung up*, immersed, intent, lost, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, unaware, airheaded, bemused, bugged, distrait, have on the brain, inconscient, lost in thought, mooning, moony, spread out, taken up, woolgathering, wrapped-up |
| Antonyms: | observant, thoughtful, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quiescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, stagnant, still, at rest, deactivated, in abeyance, slumbering |
| Antonyms: | active |
| Main Entry: | sleepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired, dull |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, comatose, dopey*, drowsy, heavy, hypnotic, inactive, lethargic, listless, out*, quiet, sleeping, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, torpid, dozy, draggy, out of it, sleepyhead, slumberous, slumbersome, snoozy, yawning |
| Antonyms: | animated, awake, energetic, unsleepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | somnolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, drowsy, listless, sleeping, soporific, tired, dozy, nodding off, out of it, snoozy |
| Main Entry: | tired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, weary |
| Synonyms: | all in, annoyed, asleep, beat*, bored, broken-down, burned out, collapsing, consumed, dead on one's feet, distressed, dog-tired, done for*, done in*, drained, drooping, droopy, drowsy, empty, enervated, exasperated, fagged, faint, fatigued, fed up*, finished, flagging, haggard, irked, irritated, jaded, narcoleptic, overtaxed, overworked, petered out, played out, pooped*, prostrated, run-down, sick of, sleepy, spent, stale, tuckered out*, wasted, worn, worn out |
| Antonyms: | activated, active, energized, fired up, fresh, invigorated, refreshed, rested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tuckered out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn out |
| Synonyms: | asleep, beat*, burned out, collapsing, dead on one's feet, dog-tired, done for*, done in*, drained, drooping, droopy, drowsy, enervated, exasperated, exhausted, fatigued, finished, overworked, played out, pooped, pooped*, run-down, sleepy, spent, tired, wasted, weary, wiped out, worn out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfeeling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-hearted, numb |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, brutal, callous, cantankerous, churlish, cold, cold fish*, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, crotchety, cruel, exacting, hard, hardened, heartless, icy, inanimate, inhuman, insensate, insensible, insensitive, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, ruthless, senseless, severe, stony, surly, thick-skinned*, tough, uncaring, unemotional, unkind, unsympathetic, anesthetized, benumbed, deadened, feelingless, iron-hearted, sensationless, unamiable, uncompassionate, uncordial |
| Antonyms: | concerned, feeling, loving, sensitive, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anesthesia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleep |
| Synonyms: | asleep, numbness, stupor, insentience, put under, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | when not paying attention |
| Synonyms: | asleep, derelict, negligent, unguarded, unprepared, asleep at the switch, flat-footed, napping, not on the job, unalert, unready, unwatchful |
| Main Entry: | passed out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | asleep, comatose, out cold, anesthetized, blacked out, dead to the world, knocked out, out like a light |
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