The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

impervious, inured, inert: He has always been dead to others'
problems. 5 out, smothered, extinguished: The fire is dead. 6
inanimate, lifeless, inert, inorganic: Dead stones speak
volumes to the geologist. 7 extinct, obsolete, perished, past,
outmoded, disused, expired, pass‚: Latin is a dead language. 8
barren, unfruitful, infertile, unproductive: That area off the
coast is dead as far as fishing goes. 9 tired (out), exhausted,
worn out, fatigued, tired out, spent, collapsing, in a state of
collapse, Slang bushed, beat, Brit knackered, US and Canadian
pooped: We were completely dead after the hike into town. 10
dull, lustreless, flat, neutral, vapid, empty, bland,
colourless, grey, beige, dun: The walls of the prison were
painted a dead white. 11 stagnant, motionless, still, standing,
static, inert, unmoving, inactive, quiet, calm: There were
small pools of dead water covered with a green slime. Without a
breath of air stirring, the boat was dead in the water. 12
boring, dull, tedious, tiresome, monotonous, prosaic,
uninteresting, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, commonplace, dry,
insipid, bland, flat, two-dimensional, lifeless, stiff, rigid,
stony: The play was bad, the performance dead. 13 dull,
muffled, deadened, anechoic, unresounding, non-resonant: One
room in the laboratory was built to be dead to all sound. 14
complete, entire, total, absolute, downright, thorough, through
and through, utter, all-out, out-and-out, unqualified,
unrelieved, unbroken, categorical, outright: My investment in
the anti-gravity pill has so far been a dead loss. 15 profound,
deep: I fell into a dead sleep. 16 sudden, abrupt, complete,
full: The train came to a dead stop. 17 certain, sure,
unerring, exact, precise, accurate, crack: According to the
records, Calamity Jane was a dead shot.
--adv. 18 completely, entirely, absolutely, totally, utterly,
categorically, thoroughly, unconditionally, unqualifiedly: You
are dead right about Pontefract. 19 completely, entirely,
absolutely, totally; abruptly, suddenly: He stopped dead in his
tracks and stared at me. 20 directly, exactly, precisely: An
enormous maelstrom lay dead ahead of the fragile craft.
--n. 21 depth(s), extreme, midst, middle: She used to visit
his room in the dead of night.
deaden v. 1 numb, benumb, paralyse, anaesthetize, desensitize, dull;
damp: This injection will deaden your hand and you'll feel no