Dead synonyms

247 synonyms for dead 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.

Another word for dead

1. departed

(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.

2. deadened

Benumbed, deadened, desensitized, frozen, immobilized, incapacitated, insensate, insensible, numb, paralysed, unfeeling, and useless.

3. unfeeling

Blank, cold, deadpan, dispassionate, emotionless, flat, frigid, glassy, glazed, hollow, impassive, indifferent, inert, inexpressive, insensitive, stony, toneless, unemotional, unfeeling, unresponsive, vacant, and wooden.

4. bare

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.

5. uninspiring

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.

6. inactive

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.

7. bare

Bare, barren, desolate, empty, lifeless, sterile, and without life.

8. entire

Absolute, complete, downright, entire, out-and-out, outright, thorough, total, unmitigated, unqualified, and utter.

9. totally

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.

10. precisely

Bang, directly, due, exactly, immediately, plumb, precisely, right, slap bang, smack, squarely, and straight.

11. hugely

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.

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