Dead and Extinct

noun

• People who are no longer living.
  • usage: "they buried the dead"
• A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.
  • usage: "the dead of winter"

adjective

• No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
  • usage: "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
• Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat.
  • usage: "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
• Very tired.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: all in, beat, bushed
• Unerringly accurate.
  • usage: "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
• Physically inactive.
  • usage: "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
• Followed by `to'. ( not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive)
  • usage: "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
  • synonyms: numb
• Devoid of physical sensation; numb.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: deadened
• Lacking acoustic resonance.
  • usage: "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
• Not yielding a return.
  • usage: "dead capital"; "idle funds"
  • synonyms: idle
• Not circulating or flowing.
  • usage: "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
  • synonyms: stagnant
• Not surviving in active use.
  • usage: "Latin is a dead language"
• Lacking resilience or bounce.
  • usage: "a dead tennis ball"
• Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.
  • usage: "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
• No longer having force or relevance.
  • usage: "a dead issue"
• Complete.
  • usage: "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"
  • synonyms: utter
• Drained of electric charge; discharged.
  • usage: "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
  • synonyms: drained
• Devoid of activity.
  • usage: "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

adverb

• Quickly and without warning.
  • usage: "he stopped suddenly"
  • synonyms: abruptly, suddenly, short
• Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly

• (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
• (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
• (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
• (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
• (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
• (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
• (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
• (a.) Bringing death; deadly.
• (v.i.) To die; to lose life or force.
• (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
• (v.t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force or vigor.
• (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
• (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
• (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
• (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
• (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
• (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
• (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
• (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
• (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
• (a.) Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
• (a.) Carrying no current or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.

adjective

• No longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives.
  • usage: "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"
  • synonyms: nonextant
• Of e. G. Volcanos. ( permanently inactive)
  • usage: "an extinct volcano"
• Being out or having grown cold.
  • usage: "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
  • synonyms: out

• (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
• (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
• (v.t.) To cause to be extinct.