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lifeless
[ lahyf-lis ]
adjective
- not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate:
lifeless matter.
Synonyms: inorganic
Antonyms: living
- destitute of living things:
a lifeless planet.
- deprived of life; dead:
a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.
Synonyms: defunct
Antonyms: living
- without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid:
a lifeless performance of a play.
Synonyms: spiritless, sluggish, passive, inert, inactive
Antonyms: lively
- insensible, as a person who has fainted.
lifeless
/ ˈlaɪflɪs /
adjective
- without life; inanimate; dead
- not sustaining living organisms
- having no vitality or animation
- unconscious
Derived Forms
- ˈlifelessness, noun
- ˈlifelessly, adverb
Other Words From
- lifeless·ly adverb
- lifeless·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It looks even bleaker for the Dallas Cowboys, who looked lifeless in attack without injured quarterback Dak Prescott as they were demolished 34-6 by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Officers found the victim’s lifeless body and launched an investigation, quickly identifying her boyfriend Aldrich as a suspect and tracking him down in Glendale, according to the Costa Mesa Police Department.
Inside a red paper bag, he found the lifeless body of a baby boy wrapped in a pink and blue blanket.
Two of her four young children were in the house at the time, one was said to have been found “trying to comfort his mother’s lifeless body”.
All the plants they’d recently added were burnt to a crisp, and the native endangered Southern California black walnut trees lining the top of their hill were charred and seemingly lifeless.
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