home Michelle Anderson dead [ded] –adjective 1. no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals. 2. not endowed with life; inanimate: dead stones. 3. resembling death; deathlike: a dead sleep; a dead faint. 4. bereft of sensation; numb: He was half dead with fright. My leg feels dead. 5. lacking sensitivity of feeling; insensitive: dead to the needs of others. d a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z dangle death darkness deprivation deer desert desk destruction dif-doi decapitate dairy dead defeat