lifeless
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- deprived of life; no longer living
- "a lifeless body"
- destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings
- "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
- lacking animation or excitement or activity
- "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
- not having the capacity to support life
- "a lifeless planet"
Adj
- inanimate; having no life
- dead; having lost life
- uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
- dull or lacking vitality
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lyfles, lifles, from Old English līflēas (“lifeless”), equivalent to life + -less. Cognate with West Frisian libbensleas (“lifeless”), Dutch levenloos (“lifeless”), German leblos (“lifeless”), Danish livløs (“lifeless”), Swedish livlös (“lifeless”), Icelandic líflaus (“lifeless”).
Synonyms
asleep, at rest, banal, beat, beingless, blah, bland, boring, cadaverous, clay-cold, cold, colourless, deceased, decomposed, defunct, departed, desert, deserted, desolate, disinhabited, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, exanimate, expired, extinct, fey, fixed, flat, gone, good, ho-hum, humdrum, immobile, immotile, immovable, impassive, inanimate, inert, inhabitantless, inhabited, insipid, kaput, lackluster, lame, languid, late, lifeless, living impaired, longsome, low, monotonous, motionless, mundane, no fun at parties, no longer with us, no more, pedantic, pedestrian, peopleless, perished, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, reposing, resting, rigid, sedent, sedentary, sessile, six feet deep, six feet under, snoozeworthy, solitary, soporific, static, stationary, stiff, still, stock-still, stodgy, straightforward, stuck, tedious, tenantless, torpid, uncool, unhabited, uninhabited, uninteresting, unmovable, unmoveable, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, untenanted, vacant, vanilla, vapid, wan, wasted, wasteful, weaksauce, whilom, with God, wooden
Scrabble Score: 11
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