dead
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
How often you will meet it
Rank 313 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 65,113 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.031% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life the nerve is deada dead pallor
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat Mars is a dead planetdead soil
- very tired also: all in, beat, bushed was all in at the end of the dayso beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
- unerringly accurate a dead shottook dead aim
- physically inactive Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive also: numb passersby were dead to our plea for helpnumb to the cries for mercy
dead in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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What make you here, my lord, this dead of night?
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Poor Xury, almost dead with fear, entreated me not to go on shore that night.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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He thought to himself hotly that it was good she was dead rather than see him shamed.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Then, being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cottonseed hulls placed beneath him and set on fire.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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And as he said this he embraced Hystaspes; both shared one feeling; their sons had been as dead and were now alive.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1