Synonyms for dead

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1. Without life

   deceased, departed, perished, expired, lifeless, inanimate, brain dead, late, former, defunct, cadaverous, mortified, no longer living, not endowed with life, devoid of life, deprived of life, gone, clinically dead, extinct, in the grave, breathless, still, no more, gone the way of all flesh, gone to one's reward, gone to meet one's Maker, out of one's misery, gone to one's last rest, gone to a better place, gathered to one's fathers, with the saints, beneath the sod, numbered with the dead, bereft of life, at rest, asleep in the Lord, resting in peace, fallen, gone to glory, cut off*, bought the farm*, dead as a doornail*, done for*, gone west*, liquidated*, wasted*, snuffed out*, erased*, gone home in a box*, pushing up daisies*, put to bed with a shovel*, grounded for good*, washed up*, clay-cold*, stone-cold*; see also extinct.

   Antonyms alive*, animate, enduring.

2. Without the appearance of life

   inert, still, stagnant, lifeless; see dead 2, 4, 6.

3. Numb

   insensible, deadened, anesthetized; see numb 1, paralyzed, unconscious 1.

4. Extinct

   ended, extinguished, terminated, obsolete; see extinct.

5. *Exhausted

   wearied, worn, spent; see tired.

6. *Complete

   final, total, unconditional; see absolute 1.

dead is the general word for someone or something that was alive but is no longer so; deceased and departed are both euphemistic, esp. for one who has recently died, but the former is largely a legal, and the latter a religious, usage; late precedes the name, relationship, or title of one who has died, especially recently the late Mr. Green or of one who preceded the incumbent in some office or function his late employer; defunct, applied to a person, is now somewhat rhetorical or jocular, but it is also commonly used of something that because of failure no longer exists or functions a defunct government; extinct is applied to a species, race, etc. that has no living member; inanimate refers to that which has never had life inanimate rocks; lifeless refers to that which has died or appears dead or to things that exhibit no life or spirit her lifeless body, a lifeless painting