How to pronounce “dead”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
• (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
• (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
• (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
• Without emotion; impassive.
• Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
• Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• Unproductive; fallow.
• Past, bygone, vanished.
• (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
• (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
• (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
• (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
• (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
• (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
• (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
• Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• (text messaging or Internet slang, sometimes as a standalone word, often with 💀) Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
• (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
• (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
• (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
• [Adverb]
• (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
• (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
• Suddenly and completely.
• (informal) As if dead.
• [Noun]
• (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.

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Similar Sounds

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