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| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | completely, totally |
| Synonyms: | absolutely, direct, directly, due, entirely, exactly, right, straight, wholly, straightly, undeviatingly |
| Antonyms: | incompletely |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, cold |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, boring, callous, dull, flat, frigid, glazed, inert, insensitive, insipid, lukewarm, numb, paralyzed, senseless, spiritless, stagnant, stale, still, tasteless, torpid, unfeeling, uninteresting, unresponsive, vapid, wooden, anesthetized, deadened, numbed |
| Antonyms: | active, animated, interested, live, living, responsive, spirited, warm |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working |
| Synonyms: | barren, bygone, defunct, departed, exhausted, extinct, gone, inactive, inoperative, lost, obsolete, spent, stagnant, sterile, still, tired, unemployed, unprofitable, useless, vanished, worn, worn out, inoperable, wearied |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animate, animated, live, operative, working |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, total |
| Synonyms: | absolute, bloody, downright, entire, final, out-and-out*, outright, perfect, sure, thorough, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, whole |
| Antonyms: | continuing, enduring, incomplete, unfinished |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bygone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the past |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, archaic, belated, dated, dead, defunct, departed, erstwhile, extinct, forgotten, former, gone, late, lost, old-fashioned, old-time, one-time, out-of-date, previous, quondam, sometime, vanished, water under the bridge*, down memory lane, gone by, in oblivion, of old, of yore, olden, oldfangled, water over the dam |
| Antonyms: | modern, new, recent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | comatose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | cold, dead, dopey, drowsy, drugged, insensible, lethargic, out, out cold*, senseless, sleepy, sluggish, somnolent, stupefied, stupid, torpid, dead to the world, hebetudinous, inconscious, out to lunch, slumberous, soporose, stuporous, vegged out |
| Antonyms: | alert, awake, conscious |
* = 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: | disrepair |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken; deteriorated |
| Synonyms: | damaged, dead, decayed, decrepit, down, kaput*, on the blink*, on the fritz, out of commission*, out of order, worn out, busted, not functioning, wracked |
| Antonyms: | good, unbroken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | done for |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruined or defeated |
| Synonyms: | beaten, beaten, broken, dead, defeated, defeated, destroyed, done in, doomed, dying, exhausted, finished, kaput, lost, ruined, shot, through, tired, undone, washed-up*, washed-up, wrecked, ausgespielt, conquered, cooked, dashed, eighty-sixed, foiled, had it, packed-up, sunk, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | accomplished, successful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | done in |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted |
| Synonyms: | bushed*, dead, depleted, done, effete, spent, tired, washed-out*, weary, worn-out, all in, fagged, far-gone, on last leg, ready to drop, used up |
| Antonyms: | rested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | used up; exhausted |
| Synonyms: | beat*, bleary, dead, depleted, dragging, effete, pooped*, spent, washed-out, weary, worn-out, all in, burned out, dead tired, far-gone, hacked, wiped-out |
| Antonyms: | full, lively, energized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | directly |
| Synonyms: | dead, direct, exactly, right, straight, straightly, undeviatingly |
| Antonyms: | indirectly |
| Main Entry: | dullsville |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring |
| Synonyms: | blah*, dead*, tedious, deadsville, dragsville, hicksville |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expressionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a blank look on face |
| Synonyms: | dead*, deadpan, dull, empty, impassive, inexpressive, inscrutable, lackluster, stolid, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wooden, fish-eyed, lusterless, nobody home, poker-faced*, straight-faced, unexpressive |
| Antonyms: | animated, demonstrative, expressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatigued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired |
| Synonyms: | beat*, bedraggled, blasé, bushed*, dead*, done in*, droopy, enervated, exhausted, jaded*, languid, listless, pooped*, prostrate, spent*, wasted*, weary, worn, worn-out, zonked*, all in, burned out, dead-beat, dead-tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, dropping, fagged out, languorous, lassitudinous, out of gas, overtired, played out, ready to drop, tuckered, washed out |
| Antonyms: | alert, keen, lively, vivacious, energized, refreshed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
| Synonyms: | absent, astray, away, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, displaced, dissipated, done, down the drain*, ended, extinct, finished, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, over, past, quit, removed, retired, spent, split, transferred, traveling, vanished, withdrawn, AWOL, burned up, consumed, decamped, disappeared, disintegrated, dissolved, dried up, elapsed, flown, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, passed, run-off, shifted, taken a powder, taken leave, turned to dust |
| Antonyms: | around, current, existing, present, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inanimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not alive, not organic |
| Synonyms: | cold, dead, defunct, dull, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, lifeless, motionless, quiescent, soulless, spiritless, azoic, exanimate, insentient, mineral, nonanimal, nonvegetable |
| Antonyms: | animate, living |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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