'Lifeless' definitions:
Definition of 'lifeless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn: lifeless, exanimate]
adjective
Destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
adjective
Lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
adjective
Not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"
Definition of 'Lifeless'
From: GCIDE
- Lifeless \Life"less\, a. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- {Life"less*ly}, adv. -- {Life"less*ness}, n.
- Syn: Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless.
- Usage: Lifeless, Dull, Inanimate, Dead. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a lack of vital energy; inanimate, a lack of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lifeless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- abiotic,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- asleep,
- asleep in Jesus,
- at rest,
- azoic,
- bare,
- barren,
- benumbed,
- bereft of life,
- blah,
- blank,
- blase,
- bleak,
- bloodless,
- bored,
- boring,
- breathless,
- called home,
- carrion,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- croaked,
- dead,
- dead and gone,
- deadened,
- death-struck,
- debilitated,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- demised,
- departed,
- departed this life,
- desert,
- desolate,
- destitute of life,
- dismal,
- done for,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dumb,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- exanimate,
- extinct,
- fade,
- fallen,
- finished,
- flat,
- food for worms,
- foul,
- gone,
- gone to glory,
- gone west,
- groggy,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inane,
- inanimate,
- inanimated,
- inert,
- inexcitable,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insentient,
- insipid,
- jaded,
- jejune,
- lackadaisical,
- lackluster,
- languid,
- languorous,
- late,
- late lamented,
- latent,
- launched into eternity,
- leaden,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- logy,
- low-spirited,
- lumpish,
- lusterless,
- martyred,
- mat,
- moribund,
- mute,
- no more,
- nonconscious,
- nonliving,
- numb,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passed on,
- passive,
- pedestrian,
- phlegmatic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- pooped,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- pushing up daisies,
- released,
- reposing,
- resting easy,
- sainted,
- sated,
- sedentary,
- senseless,
- slack,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- smitten with death,
- smoldering,
- solemn,
- somber,
- somnolent,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- stale,
- standing,
- static,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- still,
- stillborn,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stultified,
- superficial,
- supine,
- suspended,
- taken away,
- taken off,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- torpid,
- unanimated,
- unaroused,
- unconscious,
- unfeeling,
- uninhabited,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unmoving,
- unoccupied,
- vapid,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- waste,
- weary,
- with the Lord,
- with the saints,
- without life,
- without vital functions,
- wooden,
- world-weary