Lifeless

Definitions: Lifeless

Lifeless

Adjective

1. Deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body".

2. Destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly".

3. Lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived".

4. Not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet".

Date "lifeless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Lifeless

Synonyms: dead (adj), exanimate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
Physical Inertness	Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lifeless

English words defined with "lifeless": arid ♦ Clay cold ♦ dead, deaden, Deadish, desiccate, desiccated, Deutoplasm, dry ♦ Eleidin, exanimate, Exanimous ♦ Formed material ♦ Inanimation, Inexcitable ♦ juiceless ♦ Key-cold ♦ lifelessly ♦ stone-dead ♦ To be dead ♦ Vap. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lifeless": Bosom Sermons ♦ Oril'o. (references)

Etymologies containing "lifeless": Key-cold. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I didn't ask for this responsibility, unlike some people, who shall remain lifeless. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator (reference) To Speak in Lifeless Tongues (The Grails Covenant , Vol 2) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Reaching out to the Lifeless (reference) Study of the Lifeless (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The ultraviolet pass box cabinet was used in Maximum Containment labs, through which possibly contaminated objects were passed in order to render any pathogens lifeless during transfer between laboratory rooms.Credit: CDC.		The poor girl sank down lifeless on the floor.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Vapid; empty; no life forms; lifeless; uninhabited; vast; space.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He thinks of the shadowy adventures of his lifeless body in the limitless gloom.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	You know, if Congress wasn't spending so much time inventing clever acronyms, we might have Osama bin Laden's lifeless husk on display at the Smithsonian by now.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Bush	1989-1993	The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Lifeless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Lifeless" is used about 264 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.62%	263	18,193
Noun (proper)	0.38%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	264	N/A

Expression using "lifeless": dull and lifeless. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lifeless": lifeless-sounding.
	Ending with "lifeless": semi-lifeless.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "lifeless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		dood (dead, death, inanimate, late). (various references)

Albanian		i vdekur (asleep, dead, deceased, decedent, defunct, departed, extinct, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, stone-dead), i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lonely, lonesome, poor, waste, wild), i pajetë (dead, dead alive, inanimate, spiritless, vacuous), i flashkët (faded, floppy, forceless, indolent, listless, withered). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاقد الوعي (cold, inanimate, senseless, suspended, unconscious), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏ميت (dead, deceased, defunct, departed), ‏مقفر (desolate), ‏هامد (extinct, inert, static, tranquil), ‏غير مأهول (unfrequented, ungrounded, unsettled). (various references)

Bulgarian		вял (colorless, colourless, dead alive, half hearted, indolent, insipid, lackadaisical, leaden, remiss, slow, torpid), мъртъв (cold, dead, dull, extinct, low, set), безжизнен (breathless, dead, earthy, glassy, inanimate, insensate, languid, pithless, sapless, set, stone-dead, tuneless). (various references)

Chinese		無�"�命 (inert), � �"�命 (inanimate). (various references)

Czech		neživý (inanimate), mrtvý (dead, dead man, dull, unemployed), šedivý (ashy-gray, dull, glaucous, gray haired, grey, grey haired, hoary, iron-grey, miserable). (various references)

Dutch		saai (boring, dull, monotonous, stodgy, tiresome), lusteloos (apathetic, dispassionately, dull, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness, stodgy). (various references)

Esperanto		senverva (dull, stodgy). (various references)

Finnish		hengetön (dead, lacking spirit), eloton (inanimate, inert, vacant). (various references)

French		sans vie. (various references)

German		leblos (deserted, empty, inanimate, inanimately, insensate, lifelessly, unconscious). (various references)

Greek		νεκρόσ (dead, defunct, goner), άψυχοσ (exanimate, inanimate, insentient, soulless). (various references)

Hebrew		חסר חיים, �"ומם (dumb, immobile, in silence, inanimate, inorganic, quiet, silently, speechless, speechlessly, still). (various references)

Hungarian		élettelen (breathless, exanimate, glassy, inanimate, inert, inorganic). (various references)

Italian		esanime (exanimate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		虚しい (empty, futile, ineffective, vacant, vain, void), 空しい (empty, futile, ineffective, vacant, vain, void). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むなしい (empty, futile, ineffective, vacant, vain, void). (various references)

Korean		생명이 없�". (various references)

Manx		marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), gyn vioys. (various references)

Norwegian		livløs. (various references)

Pig Latin		ifelesslay

Portuguese		sem vida (azoic, bleak, freehand, spiritless), morto (cadaver, corpse, dead, deceased, decrepit, departed, extinct, stone-dead, worn out), inerte (aggregate, drowsy, inactive, inert, inertia, leaden, leader, lumpish, stagnant, supine), inanimado (hard-hearted, inanition, insensate, inseparability, kill time, senseless, spiritless), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil may care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, icerink, ill, impaste, nipping, non-com, Parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, pre-cured tread, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tack, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), colete salva-vidas (flotation jacket, in life, life jacket, life saving waistcoat, life vest). (various references)

Romanian		lipsit de viaţã (flagging, spiritless), plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, musty, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, toilsome, vapid, wearisome), neînsufleţit (brute, inanimate, spiritless), mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, dummy, exanimate, extinct, gone, in the dust), fãrã viaţã (amort, dead, dead alive, flat, toneless), fãrã energie (dead alive, languid, spineless, tame-spirited). (various references)

Russian		неодушевленный (dead, inanimate, insensate), неживой, бездыханный. (various references)

Scottish		marbh (dead, late, slay, tasteless : na mairbh, torpid, vapid), amh (crude, dull, raw, unsodden). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bez života (dead alive, inanimate, insensate, spiritless), bez živosti (unenlivened), beživotan (milk and water, sapless). (various references)

Spanish		sin vida (breathless), muerto (casualty, dead, dead man, deceased, died, doornail, dull, dummy, expired, fall, fatality, late, lost, quiescent, roach), exánime (exanimate, spiritless). (various references)

Swedish		livlös (dead, fishy, in the doldrums, inanimate, insensate, insentient). (various references)

Thai		ที่ไร้สิ่งมีชีวิต, ที่ไม่มีชีวิตชีวา, ที่ตาย. (various references)

Turkish		sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), ölü (carcass, casualty, corpse, dead, deceased, defunct, exanimate, inanimate, late, stiff, stone-dead, the dead). (various references)

Turkmen		jansyz (dead). (various references)

Ukranian		неживий (abiotic, dead, inanimate, inorganic, insensate, insentient), безжитт�"вий (bloodless, uninformed), бездиханний (breathless, exanimate, spiritless). (various references)

Vietnamese		không sinh động (insipid), không có sự sống chết, bất động không có sinh khí. (various references)

Welsh		marwaidd (sluggish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	exanimis, exanimus, frigida, frigidae, frigidam, frigidus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lifeless": lifelessly, lifelessness, lifelessnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lifeless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laceless, lufelyst. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lifeless" (pronounced lī"flus)
4	-f l u s	leafless, selfless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, legless, libelous, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-s-s"
	-1 letter: fellies.
	-2 letters: filles, filses, lisles, selles.
	-3 letters: feels, fells, fesse, files, fille, fills, flees, flies, isles, lisle, seels, seifs, seise, selfs, selle, sells, sills.
	-4 letters: eels, ells, else, eses, feel, fees, fell, fess, file, fill, fils, flee, ills, isle, lees, leis, less, lief, lies, life, seel, sees, seif, seis, self, sell, sels, sill.
	-5 letters: eel.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-s-s"
	+2 letters: fleshliest, lifelessly, lifestyles, shellfires, stellifies.
	+3 letters: damselflies, jellyfishes, shellfishes, swellfishes.
	+4 letters: guilefulness, lifelessness, lifelikeness, shellfishery, spitefullest.
	+5 letters: plentifulness, willfulnesses.
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