Dead synonyms such as bloody, (as) dead as a doornail, benumbed, blank, a thing of the past, backward, broken-down, bare, absolute, absolutely, bang, awful, and awfully. Dead is an adjective, and its antonyms are alive and living. Additionally, here are 247 synonyms, related words, and verbs for dead.
(as) dead as a doornail, asleep, at peace, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, gone, having breathed one's last, inanimate, inert, insensate, insentient, killed, lamented, late, lifeless, lost, murdered, no more, not breathing, passed away, passed on, perished, pushing up daisies, six feet under, slain, slaughtered, under the sod, and with God.
benumbed, deadened, desensitized, frozen, immobilized, incapacitated, insensate, insensible, numb, paralysed, unfeeling, and useless.
blank, cold, deadpan, dispassionate, emotionless, flat, frigid, glassy, glazed, hollow, impassive, indifferent, inert, inexpressive, insensitive, stony, toneless, unemotional, unfeeling, unresponsive, vacant, and wooden.
a thing of the past, ancient history, bare, barren, desolate, empty, extinguished, finished, gone, lifeless, no more, over, quashed, quelled, quenched, smothered, sterile, stifled, suppressed, terminated, without life, and without living things.
backward, backwoods, behind the times, boring, dead-and-alive, dull, dullsville, flat, humdrum, lacklustre, lifeless, one-horse, pedestrian, quiet, sleepy, slow, stale, tame, tedious, tiresome, uneventful, unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting, and wearisome.
broken, broken-down, bust, busted, conked out, defective, done for, dud, duff, finished, gone phut, in (a state of) disrepair, inactive, ineffective, inoperative, kaput, knackered, malfunctioning, not working, on the blink, out of commission, and out of order.
bare, barren, desolate, empty, lifeless, sterile, and without life.
absolute, complete, downright, entire, out-and-out, outright, thorough, total, unmitigated, unqualified, and utter.
absolutely, beyond, categorically, certainly, completely, conclusively, deadly, decisively, definitely, entirely, every inch, exactly, fully, in every respect, in every way, manifestly, no doubt, one hundred per cent, perfectly, positively, precisely, quite, surely, thoroughly, to the hilt, totally, unconditionally, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unquestionably, unreservedly, utterly, wholly, without a doubt, and without question.
bang, directly, due, exactly, immediately, plumb, precisely, right, slap bang, smack, squarely, and straight.
awful, awfully, bloody, damn, damned, darned, decidedly, devilishly, distinctly, especially, ever so, exceeding, exceedingly, exceptionally, extra, extraordinarily, extremely, frightfully, hugely, immensely, inordinately, jolly, lekker, mega, mighty, most, oh-so, particularly, plumb, real, really, remarkably, right, so, terribly, très, tremendously, truly, ultra, uncommonly, unusually, very, way, and well.