quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
(informal) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop"
no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness"
not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you''re perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
people who are no longer living
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
devoid of activity
physically inactive
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
drained of electric charge; discharged
complete
no longer having force or relevance
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
lacking resilience or bounce
not surviving in active use
not circulating or flowing
unerringly accurate
not yielding a return
lacking acoustic resonance
devoid of physical sensation; numb
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
very tired
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
