lifeless

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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lifeless (ˈlaɪflɪs)

—*adj*
1.	without life; inanimate; dead
2.	not sustaining living organisms
3.	having no vitality or animation
4.	unconscious

'lifelessly

—*adv*

'lifelessness

—n

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lifeless

O.E. lifleas; see life + -less.

Example sentences

It is full of lifeless buildings and palaces where important things used to

happen.

After a long winter of hats and sun deprivation, our hair was looking lifeless

and dull.

Texts on the region can be dull and lifeless or even biased and skewed.

Biology, the study of living organisms, can sometimes leave students feeling

lifeless.

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Related Words

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commonplace exanimate fossilize glazed inanimate inert

Matching Quote

"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the "easy life of the gods" would be a lifeless life."

-Hannah Arendt