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Another word for lifeless

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Adjective

  1. No longer alive

    Idioms:
    See also:

    live

  2. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise

    See also:

    excite

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Another word for lifeless

Modifier

  1. Without life

    See also:

    dead

  2. Lacking spirit

    See also:

    dead

    slow

    dull

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Sentence Examples

  • These forms were lifeless but still existed.

  • The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before.

  • All three mourned as they hovered over Jackson's lifeless body.

  • He wiggled out of his shirt and placed it over the boy's lifeless face and sat down to wait.

  • The inevitable reaction of the romantic movement made the masterpieces, which had filled the men of the Revolution with enthusiasm, seem cold and lifeless to those who had been taught to expect in art that atmosphere of mystery which in nature is everywhere present.

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