lifeless
not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
destitute of living things: a lifeless planet.
deprived of life; dead: a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.
without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid: a lifeless performance of a play.
insensible, as a person who has fainted.
Origin of lifeless
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Other words for lifeless
Opposites for lifeless
Other words from lifeless
- life·less·ly, adverb
- life·less·ness, noun
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How to use lifeless in a sentence
For now, spend a few minutes basking in the weird dance moves of these lovable, lifeless robots, and consider how far this kind of bot has come over the years.
The Boston Dynamics robots are surprisingly good dancers | Stan Horaczek | December 31, 2020 | Popular-ScienceA naked child curled up on the ground, abandoned, almost lifeless, has a chain at his navel, a symbol of a grave and painful bond with the mother who left him.
A garden overstuffed with conifers seems to me to be static and lifeless, ironically, and the surfeit of pointed shapes against the sky is unsettling in some indefinable way.
Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. | Adrian Higgins | December 2, 2020 | Washington PostPros know that taking your backyard from dull and lifeless to magical is largely a matter of creative lighting.
Gift Guide: How to turn your outdoor space into a year-round living room | Lee Clifford | November 27, 2020 | FortuneA grieving Lopez Boada wears a medical mask as she cradles Pavón’s seemingly lifeless body in “Pieta,” one of several riffs on Christian accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection.
For this artist and his girlfriend, life in lockdown became a creative opportunity | Mark Jenkins | November 12, 2020 | Washington Post
As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever.
As if, after all the above, one would want anything that reeked of lifeless imitation.
How Horst Captured Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and Vivien Leigh—and Changed Fashion Photography | Patrick Strudwick | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the edge of an already excavated grave a single bullet was fired into the back of her head and she fell lifeless into the hole.
In that image too, a young boy stands only feet from a lifeless corpse bound to a cross and publicly displayed.
Islamic Extremists Now Crucifying People in Syria—and Tweeting Out the Pictures | Jacob Siegel | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.
Full Text of President Obama's Eulogy for Nelson Mandela | The Daily Beast | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST"Looks like some wild beast had attacked him," muttered the old man, in awed tones, as he bent over the lifeless body.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThe condemned gathered sadly around the remains of their lifeless companion.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe ax was to sever the head from the lifeless body, and all the headless trunks were to be interred together.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe point pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless upon the frozen ground.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottStanding by the cold, lifeless form of his little daughter, he promised God that he would meet her in heaven.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. Byrum
British Dictionary definitions for lifeless
/ (ˈlaɪflɪs) /
without life; inanimate; dead
not sustaining living organisms
having no vitality or animation
unconscious
Derived forms of lifeless
- lifelessly, adverb
- lifelessness, noun
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