Devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" 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" (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" 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" 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" 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" 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" quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
Lower in rank, power, or authority; "an under secretary" located below or beneath something else; "nether garments"; "the under parts of a machine" further down; "see under for further discussion" down below; "get under quickly!" below the horizon; "the sun went under" below some quantity or limit; "fifty dollars or under" in or into a state of subordination or subjugation; "we must keep our disappointment under" into unconsciousness; "this will put the patient under" through a range downward; "children six and under will be admitted free" down to defeat, death, or ruin; "their competitors went under"