lifeless

Speech parts

1. lifeless - Adjective

2. lifeless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dead flat inert inactive dull inanimate torpid vapid spiritless dowdy late heavy mineral sleepy deathly
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Antonyms

airy spangled pert living live active
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Phrases with the word

lifeless thing less lifeless make lifeless become lifeless lifeless hand lifeless speech

Anagrams

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Examples

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. Boris Pasternak

It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued. Nathaniel Hawthorne

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. Mark Tobey

The knifeless man is a lifeless man. Faroese Proverb

He is lifeless that is faultless. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

lifehold privilege lifejacket lifejacketed lifeless hand lifeless matter lifeless mix