What does lifeless mean?

Definitions for lifeless
ˈlaɪf lɪslife·less

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lifeless.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. lifeless, exanimateadjective

    deprived of life; no longer living

    "a lifeless body"

  2. lifelessadjective

    destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings

    "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"

  3. lifelessadjective

    lacking animation or excitement or activity

    "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

  4. lifelessadjective

    not having the capacity to support life

    "a lifeless planet"

Wiktionary

  1. lifelessadjective

    inanimate; having no life

  2. lifelessadjective

    dead; having lost life

  3. lifelessadjective

    uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life

  4. lifelessadjective

    dull or lacking vitality

  5. lifelessadjective

    departed

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lifelessadjective

    Etymology: from life.

    The other victor-flame a moment stood,
    Then fell, and lifeless left th’ extinguish’d wood. Dryden.

    I who make the triumph of to-day,
    May of to-morrow’s pomp one part appear,
    Ghastly with wounds, and lifeless on the bier. Matthew Prior.

    Was I to have never parted from thy side?
    As good have grown there still a lifeless rib! John Milton, P. L.

    Thus began
    Outrage from lifeless things. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    The power which produces their motions, springs from something without themselves: if this power were suspended, they would become a lifeless, unactive heap of matter. George Cheyne.

    And empty words she gave, and sounding strain,
    But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    Hopeless and helpless doth Ægeon wend,
    But to procrastinate his lifeless end. William Shakespeare.

    Unknowing to command, proud to obey
    A lifeless king, a royal shade I lay. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. lifeless

    Lifeless refers to something or someone that doesn't have life or shows no signs of vitality, activity, or animation. It can describe both non-living, inanimate objects and a lack of vigour or energy in living beings.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lifelessadjective

    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

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifeless in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifeless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lifeless in a Sentence

  1. Leon Ochieng:

    What I saw was a lifeless human being without any representation, irvo loved sports, music and the beach.

  2. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

    I fell in love with your silence than your animated lifeless gestures, for its your stillness that conveyed more than what even words failed to express...

  3. Deshawn Yeldell:

    This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

  4. Jeff Otte:

    She just dropped, dropped on the ground lifeless.

  5. Brian Humphrey:

    Handing the badly injured and nearly lifeless siblings from zero visibility conditions within to waiting colleagues outside, the firefighter was able to escape unharmed before the room spiraled to a temperature that would have assuredly taken the children’s lives.

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