ALL meanings of half-dead
half-dead
H h - adjective half-dead no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals. 1
- adjective half-dead brain-dead. 1
- adjective half-dead not endowed with life; inanimate: dead stones. 1
- adjective half-dead resembling death; deathlike: a dead sleep; a dead faint. 1
- adjective half-dead bereft of sensation; numb: He was half dead with fright. My leg feels dead. 1
- adjective half-dead lacking sensitivity of feeling; insensitive: dead to the needs of others. 1
- adjective half-dead incapable of being emotionally moved; unresponsive: dead to the nuances of the music. 1
- adjective half-dead (of an emotion) no longer felt; ended; extinguished: a dead passion; dead affections. 1
- adjective half-dead no longer current or prevalent, as in effect, significance, or practice; obsolete: a dead law; a dead controversy. 1
- adjective half-dead no longer functioning, operating, or productive: a dead motor; a dead battery. 1
- adjective half-dead not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale: dead water; dead air. 1
- adjective half-dead utterly tired; exhausted: They felt dead from the six-hour trip. 1
- adjective half-dead (of a language) no longer in use as a sole means of oral communication among a people: Latin is a dead language. 1
- adjective half-dead without vitality, spirit, enthusiasm, or the like: a dead party. 1
- adjective half-dead lacking the customary activity; dull; inactive: a dead business day. 1
- adjective half-dead complete; absolute: dead silence; The plan was a dead loss. 1
- adjective half-dead sudden or abrupt, as the complete stoppage of an action: The bus came to a dead stop. 1
- adjective half-dead put out; extinguished: a dead cigarette. 1
- adjective half-dead without resilience or bounce: a dead tennis ball. 1
- adjective half-dead infertile; barren: dead land. 1
- adjective half-dead exact; precise: the dead center of a circle. 1
- adjective half-dead accurate; sure; unerring: a dead shot. 1
- adjective half-dead direct; straight: a dead line. 1
- adjective half-dead tasteless or flat, as a beverage: a dead soft drink. 1
- adjective half-dead flat rather than glossy, bright, or brilliant: The house was painted dead white. 1
- adjective half-dead without resonance; anechoic: dead sound; a dead wall surface of a recording studio. 1
- adjective half-dead not fruitful; unproductive: dead capital. 1
- adjective half-dead Law. deprived of civil rights so that one is in the state of civil death, especially deprived of the rights of property. 1
- adjective half-dead Sports. out of play: a dead ball. 1
- adjective half-dead (of a golf ball) lying so close to the hole as to make holing on the next stroke a virtual certainty. 1
- adjective half-dead (of type or copy) having been used or rejected. 1
- adjective half-dead Electricity. free from any electric connection to a source of potential difference and from electric charge. not having a potential different from that of the earth. 1
- adjective half-dead Metallurgy. fully killed. unresponsive to heat treatment. 1
- adjective half-dead (of the mouth of a horse) no longer sensitive to the pressure of a bit. 1
- adjective half-dead noting any rope in a tackle that does not pass over a pulley or is not rove through a block. 1
- noun half-dead the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.: the dead of night; the dead of winter. 1
- noun half-dead the dead, dead persons collectively: Prayers were recited for the dead. 1
- adverb half-dead absolutely; completely: dead right; dead tired. 1
- adverb half-dead with sudden and total stoppage of motion, action, or the like: He stopped dead. 1
- adverb half-dead directly; exactly; straight: The island lay dead ahead. 1
- idioms half-dead dead in the water, completely inactive or inoperable; no longer in action or under consideration: Our plans to expand the business have been dead in the water for the past two months. 1
- idioms half-dead dead to rights, in the very act of committing a crime, offense, or mistake; red-handed. 1
- adjective half-dead very tired 0