dead calm
Speech parts
1. dead calm - Noun
2. dead calm - Adjective
Meaning
dead calm (not comparable)
(of a body of water) Completely still with no waves and no wind.
We were drifting on a dead calm sea for a third week in a row.
dead calm (uncountable)
(nautical) The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind.
Dead calm prevails over the Atlantic.
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Examples
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.
Kidman next starred with Sam Neill in Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer.
She has short stories in three Level Best anthologies, Thin Ice, Dead Calm and Blood Moon.