lifeless

[ lahyf-lis ]
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adjective
  1. not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.

  2. destitute of living things: a lifeless planet.

  1. deprived of life; dead: a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.

  2. without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid: a lifeless performance of a play.

  3. insensible, as a person who has fainted.

Origin of lifeless

1
before 1000; Middle English lifles,Old English līflēas.See life, -less

synonym study For lifeless

3. See dead.

Other words for lifeless

Opposites for lifeless

Other words from lifeless

  • life·less·ly, adverb
  • life·less·ness, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for lifeless

lifeless

/ (ˈlaɪflɪs) /


adjective
  1. without life; inanimate; dead

  2. not sustaining living organisms

  1. having no vitality or animation

  2. unconscious

Derived forms of lifeless

  • lifelessly, adverb
  • lifelessness, noun

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