dead
No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
Adjective 4 meanings
No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
“All of my grandparents are dead.”
Devoid of living things; barren.
“a dead planet”
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
Utterly exhausted.
Adverb 4 meanings
Exactly.
“dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left”
Very, absolutely, extremely.
Suddenly and completely.
“He stopped dead.”
As if dead.
“dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still”
Noun 3 meanings
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
“Near-synonym: nadir”
Those who have died: dead people.
“the quick and the dead”
(usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Verb 2 meanings
To prevent by disabling; to stop.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.
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DEAD at a glance
DEAD has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + A 1 + D 2) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #620 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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