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dead
English
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English d?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?d, IPA(key): /d?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- (West Country) IPA(key): /di?d/
Adjective
dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)
- (usually not comparable) No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- Have respect for the dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of life.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
- Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
- Without emotion.
- Stationary; static.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- Unproductive.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
- 2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful":
- In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- (not comparable) Full and complete.
- (not comparable) Exact.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
- (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
- He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
- 1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:
- But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
Usage notes
- In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:
- 1611, King James Bible
- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dead
Antonyms
- alive
- living
Translations
Adverb
dead (not comparable)
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
- Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- (informal) As if dead.
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Translations
Noun
dead (uncountable)
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- (collective, with the) Those persons who are dead.
Translations
Noun
dead (plural deads)
- (Britain) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Verb
dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)
- (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.
Related terms
- deaden
- deadliness
- deadly
- deadness
- death
- undead
Derived terms
References
- dead at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dade, Edda, adde, dade
French
Etymology
From English dead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?d/
Verb
dead
- (slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")
Usage notes
The verb is left unconjugated: il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *daud.
Cognate with Old Frisian d?d (West Frisian dead), Old Saxon d?d, Dutch dood, Old High German t?t (German tot), Old Norse dauðr (Swedish död), Gothic ???????????????????? (dauþs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæ???d/
Adjective
d?ad
- dead
Declension
Derived terms
- d?adl??
- healfd?ad
Related terms
- d?aþ
Descendants
- Middle English: ded, deed
- Scots: dede, deed, deid
- English: dead
- Yola: deed
See also
- steorfan
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English dead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de?ad]
Noun
dead (nominative plural deads)
- death, state being dead, state of death
Declension
Derived terms
- ädeadöl
- bludamodeadön
- dadeadön
- deadam
- deadamadel
- deadan
- deadanöp
- deadik
- deadio
- deadöf
- deadöfan
- deadöfik
- deadöl
- deadölan
- deadön
- deid
- deidöl
- deidön
- drakideidan
- drakihideidan
- drakijideidan
- edeadöl
- edeadön
- hideadan
- hideadöfan
- hideadölan
- jideadan
- jideadöfan
- jideadölan
- pedeidöl
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obtuse
English
Etymology
From Middle French obtus (“obtuse (geometry); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless”), from Latin obt?sus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtund? (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“prefix meaning against”) (see ob-) + tund? (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?tju?s/, /-?t?u?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t(j)us/, /?b-/
- Rhymes: -u?s
- Hyphenation: ob?tuse
Adjective
obtuse (comparative obtuser or more obtuse, superlative obtusest or most obtuse)
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- When the elder Osborne gave what he called "a hint," there was no possibility for the most obtuse to mistake his meaning. He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latter to leave his service.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- Indirect or circuitous.
Synonyms
- (intellectually dull): dense, dim, dim-witted, thick (informal)
- (of a sound): deadened, muffled
- (of a triangle): obtuse-angled
- (now chiefly botany, zoology): blunt, dull
Antonyms
- (intellectually dull): bright, intelligent, on the ball, quick off the mark, quick-witted, sharp, smart
- (deadened, muffled, muted): clear, sharp
- (of an angle): acute
- (of a triangle): acute, acute-angled
- (now chiefly botany, zoology): pointed, sharp
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
obtuse (third-person singular simple present obtuses, present participle obtusing, simple past and past participle obtused)
- (transitive, obsolete) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
Translations
Further reading
- obtuse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- obtuse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- obtuse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- obtuse at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- buteos
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.tyz/
Adjective
obtuse
- feminine singular of obtus
Anagrams
- boutes
Latin
Adjective
obt?se
- vocative masculine singular of obt?sus
References
- obtuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obtuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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