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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ 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]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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 want of vital energy; inanimate, a want 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.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
lifeless adj 1: deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn: exanimate] 2: destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly" 3: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" [syn: dead] 4: not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless a. 1 inanimate; having no life 2 dead; having lost life 3 uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 4 dull or lacking vitalityFrom English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless a. 1 inanimate; having no life 2 dead; having lost life 3 uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 4 dull or lacking vitalityFrom English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless a. 1 inanimate; having no life 2 dead; having lost life 3 uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 4 dull or lacking vitalityFrom English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless a. 1 inanimate; having no life 2 dead; having lost life 3 uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 4 dull or lacking vitalityFrom Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless Englanti a. elotonFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
lifeless Engelska a. livlösFrom English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/ ميّتFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
lifeless //ˈlaɪfləs//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]1. мъртъв dead 2. безжизнен inanimate
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]neživý
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]mrtvý
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/ leblosFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]entseelt Synonym: dead
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]temperamentlos see: spiritless
lifeless //ˈlaɪfləs//From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]1. hengetön, kuollut dead 2. hengetön 2. dull or lacking vitality 3. inanimate 3. kuollut uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]1. मृत "The doctor declared him lifeless." 2. नीरस "The play was absolutely lifeless." 3. जीवन रहित "Most of the planets are lifeless."
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/ élettelenFrom English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]
lifeless //ˈlaɪfləs//From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]生命 dead
lifeless /laifləs/ lusteloos, saaiFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
lifeless /ˈlaɪflɪs/From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-por ]1. bez życia 2. nieżywotny 3. beznamiętny
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]sem vida
lifeless //ˈlaɪfləs//From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]livlös dead
lifeless /lˈaɪfləs/ 1. cansız, ölü 2. ölü gibi. lifelessly cansızca. lifelessness cansızlık.From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈɫaɪfɫəs/
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "lifeless": 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-wearyFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 无生命的,无趣味的,死气沉沉的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 无生命的,无趣味的,死气沉沉的