deader

Adjective

dead (not generally comparable, comparative deader, superlative deadest)

1. (not comparable, usually) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
   • All of my grandparents are dead.
2. (not comparable, usually) Devoid of living things; barren.
   • a dead planet
3. (excessive, not comparable, usually) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
   • When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act III, scene 3
4. (not comparable, usually) Utterly exhausted.
   • “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 124
5. (not comparable, usually) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
   • He is dead to me.
6. (not comparable, usually, literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
   • "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"

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