stillborn

Speech parts

1. stillborn - Noun

2. stillborn - Adjective

3. stillborn - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. Ayn Rand

I forgive the stillborn hopes. Paulo Coelho

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I long to be free - desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free. Emil Cioran

You are quite acute for a mental stillborn. Dan Simmons

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. Maxine Kumin

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