dead in WordNet English dictionary

1. quickly and without warning
   "he stopped suddenly"
   abruptly  suddenly  short  dead  abruptly  suddenly  short  dead 
   
2. 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"
   absolutely  perfectly  utterly  dead  absolutely  perfectly  utterly  dead 
   

1. 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"
   all in  beat  bushed  dead 
   
2. 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"
   dead 
   
3. 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"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
   dead 
   
4. complete
   "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"
   dead  utter 
   
5. not surviving in active use
   "Latin is a dead language"
   dead 
   
6. physically inactive
   "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
   dead 
   
7. devoid of activity
   "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
   dead 
   
8. lacking resilience or bounce
   "a dead tennis ball"
   dead 
   
9. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
   "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
   dead 
   
10. 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"
    dead  deadened 
    
11. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
    "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
    dead  numb 
    
12. no longer having force or relevance
    "a dead issue"
    dead 
    
13. unerringly accurate
    "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
    dead 
    
14. not circulating or flowing
    "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
    dead  stagnant 
    
15. drained of electric charge; discharged
    "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
    dead  drained 
    
16. not yielding a return
    "dead capital"; "idle funds"
    dead  idle 
    
17. lacking acoustic resonance
    "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
    dead 
    

1. people who are no longer living
   "they buried the dead"
   dead 
   
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
   "the dead of winter"
   dead