<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.</li><li>brain-dead.</li><li>not endowed with life; inanimate: dead stones.</li><li>resembling death; deathlike: a dead sleep; a dead faint.</li><li>bereft of sensation; numb: He was half dead with fright.</li><li>lacking sensitivity of feeling; insensitive: dead to the needs of others.</li><li>incapable of being emotionally moved; unresponsive: dead to the nuances of the music.</li><li>(of an emotion) no longer felt; ended; extinguished: dead affections.</li><li>no longer current or prevalent, as in effect, significance, or practice; obsolete: a dead law; a dead controversy.</li><li>no longer functioning, operating, or productive: a dead motor; a dead battery.</li><li>not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale: dead water; dead air.</li><li>utterly tired; exhausted: They felt dead from the six-hour trip.</li><li>(of a language) no longer in use as a sole means of oral communication among a people: Latin is a dead language.</li><li>without vitality, spirit, enthusiasm, or the like: a dead party.</li><li>lacking the customary activity; dull; inactive: a dead business day.</li><li>complete; absolute: dead silence; The plan was a dead loss.</li><li>sudden or abrupt, as the complete stoppage of an action: The bus came to a dead stop.</li><li>put out; extinguished: a dead cigarette.</li><li>without resilience or bounce: a dead tennis ball.</li><li>infertile; barren: dead land.</li><li>exact: the dead center of a circle.</li><li>accurate; sure; unerring: a dead shot.</li><li>direct; straight: a dead line.</li><li>tasteless or flat, as a beverage: a dead soft drink.</li><li>flat rather than glossy, bright, or brilliant: The house was painted dead white.</li><li>without resonance; anechoic: dead sound; a dead wall surface of a recording studio.</li><li>not fruitful; unproductive: dead capital.</li><li>deprived of civil rights so that one is in the state of civil death, especially deprived of the rights of property.</li><li>out of play: a dead ball.</li><li>(of a golf ball) lying so close to the hole as to make holing on the next stroke a virtual certainty.</li><li>(of type or copy) having been used or rejected.</li><li>free from any electric connection to a source of potential difference and from electric charge.</li><li>not having a potential different from that of the earth.</li><li>(of steel) fully killed; unresponsive to heat treatment.</li><li>(of the mouth of a horse) no longer sensitive to the pressure of a bit.</li><li>noting any rope in a tackle that does not pass over a pulley or is not rove through a block.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.: the dead of night; the dead of winter.</li><li>the dead, dead persons collectively: Prayers were recited for the dead.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>absolutely; completely: dead right; dead tired.</li><li>with sudden and total stoppage of motion, action, or the like: He stopped dead.</li><li>directly; exactly; straight: The island lay dead ahead.</li></ul>