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Lifeless

Lifeless Meaning & Definition
Lifeless Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lifeless?

[adj] deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"
[adj] not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"
[adj] lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
[adj] destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lifeless: dead | empty | exanimate | unanimated

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lifeless: abeyant | abiotic | apathetic | arid | asleep | asleep in Jesus | at rest | azoic | bare | barren | benumbed | bereft of life | blah | blank | blase | bleak | bloodless | bored | boring | breathless | called home | carrion | cataleptic | catatonic | characterless | cold | colorless | croaked | dead | dead and gone | deadened | death-struck | debilitated | deceased | defunct | demised | departed | departed this life | desert | desolate | destitute of life | dismal | done for | dopey | dormant | drab | draggy | drearisome | dreary | droopy | drugged | dry | dryasdust | dull | dumb | dusty | effete | elephantine | empty | enervated | etiolated | exanimate | extinct | fade | fallen | finished | flat | food for worms | foul | gone | gone to glory | gone west | groggy | heavy | hebetudinous | ho-hum | hollow | in abeyance | in suspense | inactive | inane | inanimate | inanimated | inert | inexcitable | insensate | insensible | insentient | insipid | jaded | jejune | lackadaisical | lackluster | languid | languorous | late | late lamented | latent | launched into eternity | leaden | lethargic | listless | logy | low-spirited | lumpish | lusterless | martyred | mat | moribund | mute | no more | nonconscious | nonliving | numb | pale | pallid | passed on | passive | pedestrian | phlegmatic | plodding | pointless | poky | ponderous | pooped | prosaic | prosy | pushing up daisies | released | reposing | resting easy | sainted | sated | sedentary | senseless | slack | sleeping | sleepy | slow | sluggish | slumbering | smitten with death | smoldering | solemn | somber | somnolent | soulless | spiritless | stagnant | stagnating | stale | standing | static | sterile | stiff | still | stillborn | stodgy | stuffy | stultified | superficial | supine | suspended | taken away | taken off | tame | tasteless | tedious | tiresome | torpid | unanimated | unaroused | unconscious | unfeeling | uninhabited | uninteresting | unlively | unmoving | unoccupied | vapid | vegetable | vegetative | wan | waste | weary | with the Lord | with the saints | without life | without vital functions | wooden | world-weary

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Lifeless In Webster's Dictionary

\Life"less\, a. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- {Life"less*ly}, adv. -- {Life"less*ness}, n. Syn: Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless. Usage: {Lifeless}, {Dull}, {Inanimate}, {Dead}. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a want of vital energy; inanimate, a want of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.

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