(adj): predicate), at peace(predicate), at rest(predicate), deceased, departed, gone -- (dead
(adj): murdered by surprise attack for political reasons
(adj): destitute of blood or apparently so
(adj): having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram
(adj): appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
(adj): lacking the warmth of life
(adj): abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room
(adj): having the physical appearance of death
(adj): having ceased to exist or live
(adj): marked for certain death
(adj): put to death as punishment
(adj): killed in battle
(adj): prenominal) -- (having died recently
(adj): deprived of life; no longer living
(adj): killed unlawfully
(adj): not capable of living or developing successfully
(adj): killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
(adj): (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn
(adj): as lifeless as a stone
(adj): vs. live) -- (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
(adj): predicate) -- (being out or having grown cold
(adj): not having the capacity to support life
(adj): predicate) -- ((of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"
(adj): predicate), beat(predicate), bushed(predicate), dead(predicate) -- (very tired
(adj): vs. rested) -- (depleted of strength or energy
(adj): unerringly accurate
(adj): vs. imprecise) -- (sharply exact or accurate or delimited
(adj): physically inactive
(adj): vs. active) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
(adj): predicate), numb(predicate) -- ((followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
(adj): vs. sensitive) -- (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
(adj): devoid of physical sensation; numb
(adj): vs. sensitive) -- (not responsive to physical stimuli
(adj): lacking acoustic resonance
(adj): vs. reverberant), nonresonant -- (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
(adj): not yielding a return
(adj): vs. profitable) -- (producing little or no profit or gain
(adj): prenominal), stagnant -- (not circulating or flowing
(adj): prenominal) (vs. running) -- ((of fluids) not moving or flowing
(adj): not surviving in active use
(adj): vs. extant), nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
(adj): lacking resilience or bounce
(adj): vs. elastic) -- (not elastic
(adj): out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
(adj): vs. operative) -- (not working or taking effect
(adj): no longer having force or relevance
(adj): vs. current) -- (not current or belonging to the present time
(adj): prenominal), utter -- (complete
(adj): vs. incomplete) -- (having every necessary or normal part or component or step
(adj): drained of electric charge; discharged
(adj): vs. charged) -- (of a particle or body or system; having no charge
(adj): devoid of activity
(adj): vs. active) -- (lacking activity; lying idle or unused
(n): people who are no longer living
(n): (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
(n): a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
(n): an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
(adv): quickly and without warning
(adv): completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
In Italian, stones are women (pietra, pl. pietre).
And buy him some pop rocks.
*Relieved* He's agreed to stop sulking at midnight. As long as I take him for double walkies tomorrow.
Hey, I never said it was accurate, just that I was amused.
*pats stone* There, there.
My stone disagrees. You've really upset him.
I think the last definition is what you're looking for, yarb: "completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers".
I think my favourite is "as lifeless as a stone".
That's insane!
"Abbreviation for 'dead on arrival' at the emergency room." *scratches head*
I like murdered by surprise attack for political reasons. Weirdnet's been reading tabloids again.
Weirdnet going to town on this one, but omitting the slang sense of "very, extremely"...
What e used to do
were make this doll speak
wi a dead queer voice -
bloody great, it were -
just like it talkin.
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983