Definitions For Dead

noun

  • People who are no longer living
  • A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  • People who have died
  • The state of being dead
  • The time in the middle of the night or winter

adjective

  • Devoid of activity
  • Physically inactive
  • Drained of electric charge; discharged
  • The complete stoppage of an action
  • 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

adjective

  • 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

adverb

  • Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
  • Quickly and without warning

verb

  • Completely or totally
  • In a sudden and complete way
  • Directly or exactly

Is Dead a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
6
Words with Friends
6

The word Dead is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Dead in a Sentence

  • Her husband is dead. He died last year.
  • He was found dead in his apartment yesterday.
  • He lay dead on the floor.
  • By the end of the war, there were over two million dead.
  • He began his journey in the dead of winter.
  • She's dead certain that she can finish the job.
  • We were dead tired by the end of the day.
  • He's not joking. In fact, he's dead serious.

Synonyms for Dead

Antonyms for Dead

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