Thesaurus:dead

Thesaurus

dead

English

Adjective

Sense: no longer living, be it a person or a thing

Synonyms

• asleep
• cadaverous
• clay-cold
• deceased
• decomposed
• defunct
• departed
• expired
• extinct
• gone
• good    [⇒ thesaurus] (etymology 6)
• inanimate
• inert
• kaput
• late
• lifeless
• living impaired
• no more
• perished
• reposing
• stiff
• wasted
• whilom (obsolete)

Antonyms

• alive    [⇒ thesaurus]

Idioms

• (to be) at peace
• (to be) at the end of the road
• (to be) bereft of life
• (to be) belly up
• (to have) bitten the big one
• (to have) bitten the dust
• (to have) bought the farm
• (to be) brown bread
• (to have) ceased to be
• (to be) checked out
• (to be) dead and gone
• (to be) dead as a dodo
• (to be) dead as a doornail
• (to be) dead as a doorknob
• (to be) dead as a duck
• (to be) dead as a haddock
• (to be) dead as a hammer
• (to be) dead as a herring
• (to be) dead as a mackerel
• (to be) dead as a nit
• (to be) dead as a pickled herring
• (to be) dead as a stump
• (to be) dead as a turd
• (to be) dead as a turd in a milk bucket
• (to be) dead as dishwater
• (to be) dead as mutton
• (to be) dead as stone
• (to be) dead as wood
• (to be) deader than dead
• (to be) deader than road kill
• (to go) feet first
• (to be) food for worms
• (to be) gone away
• (to have) gone on to one's reward
• (to have) gone to be with Jesus
• (to have) gone to heaven
• (to have) gone to one's final resting place
• (to have) gone to paradise
• (to have) gone to sing with the angels
• (to have) gone to the Great Beyond
• (to have) gone to the next life
• (to be) in Abraham's bosom
• (to be) in heaven
• (to be) in paradise
• (to be) in the grave
• (to have) joined the choir invisible
• (to have) kicked the bucket
• (to have) met one's end
• (to have) met one's maker
• (to be) no longer with us
• (to be) offed
• (to be) passed away
• (to have) passed on
• (to be) pushing up the daisies
• (to be) resting in peace
• (to have) run down the curtain
• (to have) seen the reaper
• (to have) shuffled off this mortal coil
• (to be) six feet under
• (to) sleep with the fishes
• (to have) snuffed it
• (to be) stone dead
• (to be) taking a dirt nap
• (to be) washed up
• (to be) with God
• (to be) worm food
• (to be) wasted

Abbreviation

• OB

Symbol

• †

See also

• Thesaurus:die
• Thesaurus:kill

Further reading

• 360. “death” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dead” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.