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lifelessness

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life⋅less

  [lahyf-lis]
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–adjective
1. not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
2. destitute of living things: a lifeless planet.
3. deprived of life; dead: a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.
4. without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid: a lifeless performance of a play.
5. insensible, as a person who has fainted.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME lifles, OE līflēas. See life, -less

Related forms:
life⋅less⋅ly, adverb
life⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. inorganic. 3. defunct. See dead. 4. inactive, inert, passive; sluggish; spiritless.

Antonyms:
1, 3. living. 4. lively.
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life·less   (līf'lĭs)   
adj.  

  1. Having no life; inanimate.

  2. Having lost life; dead. See Synonyms at dead.

  3. Not inhabited by living beings; not capable of sustaining life.

  4. Lacking vitality or animation; dull: a lifeless party.

life'less·ly adv., life'less·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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