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lifeless

[ lahyf-lis ]

adjective

  1. not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate:

    lifeless matter.

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  2. destitute of living things:

    a lifeless planet.

  3. deprived of life; dead:

    a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.

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  4. without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid:

    a lifeless performance of a play.

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  5. insensible, as a person who has fainted.


lifeless

/ ˈɪڱɪ /

adjective

  1. without life; inanimate; dead
  2. not sustaining living organisms
  3. having no vitality or animation
  4. unconscious
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱԱ, noun
  • ˈڱ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ڱl· adverb
  • ڱl·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lifeless1

before 1000; Middle English lifles, Old English īڱŧ. See life, -less
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Synonym Study

See dead.
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Example Sentences

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“Joyful association in the public domain is far better than watching television in our lifeless subdivisions,” Oldenburg proclaimed in a 2014 New York Times op-ed.

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Dead is lifeless and gone, but spirit, which she courts, is animated, full of love and loved.

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Fighting back the tears, 22-year-old rubbish collector Okuku Prince recalls the moment his best friend's lifeless body was found at a massive rubbish dump in Uganda's capital, Kampala.

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In the last century 92% of the plants have been lost from Britain's coasts and areas once covered by seagrass are now "lifeless seabeds", according to research by University College London.

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As the scheming masterminds, Gaga and Beyoncé poison Gibson and every other inhabitant of the diner they're in, all while breaking into song and dance amid a scene of seemingly lifeless bodies.

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