splendiferous, resplendent; stunning, overpowering, blinding, bedazzling, fulgent, foudroyant; radiant, glowing, gleaming, beaming, sparkling; (all usu. of a woman) beautiful, gorgeous, ravishing,
dead, adj. 1. deceased, extinct, defunct, perished; departed, gone, no more, still, asleep, Sl. cold, Brit. Sl. potted head, lifeless, inanimate, exanimate, inorganic.
2. numb, numbed, benumbed; unconscious, comatose, impassive.
3. insensible, insensitive, insentient, insensate; unemotional, emotionless, unfeeling, dispassionate; apathetic, indifferent, lukewarm, unconcerned, unresponsive, unsympathetic; uninterested, unimpressible, disinterested, incurious, uninquisitive; cool, cold, frigid, frosty; callous, hardened, inured.
4. dull, sluggish, phlegmatic, lethargic, torpid, heavy; languid, listless, spiritless; lazy, oscitant, drowsy.
5. extinguished, quenched, smothered, suffocated, stifled, choked; ended, terminated, dissolved, checked; quashed, quelled, suppressed, squelched, crushed; finished, finished off, Sl. eighty-sixed.
6. obsolete, obsolescent, outmoded, passd; extinct, no longer in existence; expired, lapsed, passed; disused, discontinued, fallen into desuetude.
7. tired, tired out, exhausted, fatigued, worn out, played out, spent, Sl. pooped, Sl. dished.
8. barren, infertile, unproductive, unprofitable, unyielding, unfructuous, unfruitful, fruitless; depleted, used up, worn out, impoverished; poor, bare, dry, arid, bald, desolate, naked; stale, washed-up, useless.
9. stagnant, standing, motionless, still, stationary, static; inactive, inert; quiet, quiescent, dormant, calm; not working, out of commission. 10. tedious, tiresome, boring, boresome, wearisome, uninteresting, dry, dry-as-dust; tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; uneventful, humdrum, monotonous, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, prosaic, matter-of-fact. 11. complete, absolute, total, entire; outright, downright, out-and-out, straight-out, all-out, across-the-board; sheer, utter, thorough, unmitigated; unqualified, categorical, unconditional, unconditioned, unreserved, unrestricted. 12. abrupt, sudden, quick, hasty, instantaneous, rapid, swift, hurried; unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unannounced. 13. accurate, exact, precise; correct, unerring, unfailing, Inf. on the mark, on target; direct, straight; sure, certain, crack. 14. unresounding, without resonance; without resilience, without elasticity; heavy, without bounce. -n. 15. silence, soundlessness, noiselessness; quiet, stillness, hush, peace; dark, darkness, blackness; depth, midst. -adv. 16. completely, absolutely, totally, entirely; utterly, thoroughly, unqualifiedly, categorically, unconditionally; directly, exactly, diametrically,
deaden, v. 1. press, dampen, blunt, obtund, hebetate; weaken, subdue, moderate; soothe, assuage, mitigate, abate, lessen, diminish, reduce, buff; repress, suppress, restrain, retard; choke, stifle, check, damp; muffle, mute, quiet, smother.
2. devitalize, enfeeble, impair, incapacitate; desensitize, paralyze, numb, benumb, anesthetize, drug, dope.
deadlock, n. 1. stalemate, impasse, standstill; quietus, halt, stop, stoppage, full stop, dead stop, cessation; stand, stay, check, checkmate, mate; block, blockage; stand-off, tie, draw.
2. dilemma, perplexity, nonplus; predicament, hole,