lifeless
1Lifeless — Life less, a. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless… …
2lifeless — [adj1] not living, not containing living things asleep, bare, barren, brute, cold, comatose, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, desert, empty, exanimate, extinct, faint, inanimate, inert, inorganic, insensate, insensible, late, out cold*, sterile …
3lifeless — [līf′lis] adj. 1. without life; specif., a) that never had life; inanimate b) that no longer has life; dead c) having no living beings [a lifeless planet] 2. dull; listless SYN. DEAD lifelessly adv. lifelessness …
4lifeless — I (dead) adjective abrogated, annihilated, annulled, at rest, bereft of life, breathless, cadaveric, cadaverous, canceled, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, destitute of life, devoid of life, ended, exanimate, exanimus, expired, extinct, gone …
5lifeless — O.E. lifleas inanimate, dead; see LIFE (Cf. life) + LESS (Cf. less). Meaning with no living things is from 1728. Related: Lifelessly; lifelessness …
6lifeless — inanimate, *dead, defunct, deceased, departed, late Analogous words: inert, inactive, passive: *stiff, rigid, stark, wooden, inflexible: torpid (see LETHARGIC) Antonyms: living Contrasted words: alive, animate, animated, vital (see LIVING):… …
7lifeless — ► ADJECTIVE 1) dead or apparently dead. 2) devoid of living things. 3) lacking vigour, vitality, or excitement. DERIVATIVES lifelessly adverb lifelessness noun …
8lifeless — [[t]la͟ɪfləs[/t]] 1) ADJ If a person or animal is lifeless, they are dead, or are so still that they appear to be dead. Their cold blooded killers had then dragged their lifeless bodies upstairs to the bathroom... There was no breathing or pulse… …
9lifeless — adj. 1 dead VERBS ▪ appear, be, look ▪ She lay lifeless in the snow. ▪ lie ADVERB ▪ completely …
10lifeless — lifelessly, adv. lifelessness, n. /luyf lis/, adj. 1. not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter. 2. destitute of living things: a lifeless planet. 3. deprived of life; dead: a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies. 4.… …
