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lifeless
[ lahyf-lis ]
adjective
- not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate:
lifeless matter.
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- destitute of living things:
a lifeless planet.
- deprived of life; dead:
a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.
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- without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid:
a lifeless performance of a play.
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- insensible, as a person who has fainted.
lifeless
/ ˈɪڱɪ /
adjective
- without life; inanimate; dead
- not sustaining living organisms
- having no vitality or animation
- unconscious
Derived Forms
- ˈڱԱ, noun
- ˈڱ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ڱl· adverb
- ڱl·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Later that day, Jessica and her sister's lifeless bodies were found among the rubble.
He then saw Janet's naked lifeless body lying at the bottom of the stairs.
"You can see it in my face, in my eyes. There's nobody there. I'm just lifeless inside."
“Joyful association in the public domain is far better than watching television in our lifeless subdivisions,” Oldenburg proclaimed in a 2014 New York Times op-ed.
Dead is lifeless and gone, but spirit, which she courts, is animated, full of love and loved.
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