dead
     adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have
            life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was
            marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: {alive(p)}]
     2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity
        to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy
        or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead
        soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: {live}]
     3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
        could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after
        all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn:
        {all in(p)}, {beat(p)}, {bushed(p)}, {dead(p)}]
     4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
     5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
        volcano of the Cascade Range"
     6: total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn: {dead(a)},
        {utter(a)}]
     7: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
        "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: {inanimate}, {nonliving}]
        [ant: {animate}]
     8: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
        unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
        "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}]
     9: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from
        the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist
        drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by
        continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: {deadened}]
     10: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
         some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a
         recording studio"
     11: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: {idle}]
     12: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
         "stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}, {stagnant}]
     13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
         dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
     14: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
     15: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
     16: no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead)
         law"; "a defunct organization" [syn: {defunct}]
     17: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
     18: sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn: {dead(a)}]
     19: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
         "left the lights on and came back to find the battery
         drained" [syn: {drained}]
     20: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party
         being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until
         she arrived" [syn: {lifeless}]
     21: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
         happens here"
     n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
          [ant: {living}]
     2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
        death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
     adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly},
             {suddenly}, {short}]
     2: completely and without qualification; used informally as
        intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
        perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right";
        "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my
        innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: {absolutely},
         {perfectly}, {utterly}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0

dead adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of
   hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing
   continued development and support. 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym:
   `live'. Compare {dead code}.


Source: The Jargon File