What does lifeless mean?
Definitions for lifeless
ˈlaɪf lɪslife·less
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lifeless.
Princeton's WordNet
lifeless, exanimate(adj)
deprived of life; no longer living
"a lifeless body"
lifeless(adj)
destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings
"after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
lifeless(adj)
lacking animation or excitement or activity
"the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
lifeless(adj)
not having the capacity to support life
"a lifeless planet"
Wiktionary
lifeless(Adjective)
inanimate; having no life
lifeless(Adjective)
dead; having lost life
lifeless(Adjective)
uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
lifeless(Adjective)
dull or lacking vitality
lifeless(Adjective)
departed
Webster Dictionary
Lifeless(adj)
destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lifeless in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lifeless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of lifeless in a Sentence
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
It's definitely relieving when you see someone breathing again when two, three minutes beforehand they looked lifeless, a couple of pumps of the nasal spray and they're doing better. It's pretty incredible.
My heart was broken. I don’t want to cry. She was just so lifeless, but she still held onto my finger.
I often think of Shelley's famous insightful sonnet "Ozymandias" that brilliantly depicts the inevitable fall of all foolishly arrogant leaders and their huge empires built in pretensions to their self-proclaimed greatness. Nature and Time always prevail and overtake ultimately, when nothing remains of those great empires or the arrogant leaders.....and only the lone and level sands stretch far away. Vanity, false pride and arrogance never win, in my view. Humility is the true key success. Here is that famous sonnet "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley, written in January 1818, nearly 200 years ago. "I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom.
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