dead - noun

people who are no longer living

a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

dead - adjective

• no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
• not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
• very tired
• unerringly accurate
• physically inactive
• (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
• devoid of physical sensation; numb
• lacking acoustic resonance
• not yielding a return
• not circulating or flowing
• not surviving in active use
• lacking resilience or bounce
• out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
• no longer having force or relevance
• complete
• drained of electric charge; discharged
• devoid of activity

dead - adverb

• quickly and without warning
• completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

dead - thesaurus

abruptly   absolutely   beat   bushed   deadened   drained   idle   numb   perfectly   short   stagnant   suddenly   utter   utterly