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lifeless Definition

life·less (līflis)

adjective

  1. without life; specif.,
    1. that never had life; inanimate
    2. that no longer has life; dead
    3. having no living beings a lifeless planet
  2. dull; listless

lifeless Related Forms
life·lessly adverb life·less·ness noun
lifeless Synonyms

lifeless

modif.

  1. Without life

    dead, inert, inanimate, departed; see dead 1.

  2. Lacking spirit

    lackluster, listless, heavy; see dull 3, 4, slow 2. See syn. study at dead.

lifeless Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • seemingly: Safely inside the crate, we all peered through the cracks at the prone and seemingly lifeless form.
  • apparently: The apparently lifeless universe that you see beyond our planet is an illusion, due to lack of knowledge.
  • almost: I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.
  • rather: What fish could be seen all seemed rather lifeless.
  • so: Tidying up bits of the city is fine, but why does the Center and Old Market look so lifeless now?
  • very: It's turning into a very lifeless website now.

Preposition: on

  • ground: Up to six arrows are embedded in the victim, who lies slumped lifeless on the ground.

Preposition: as

  • stone: Until you find the Kingdom of Hades, your bodies will stay as lifeless as stone.

Modifies a noun

  • corpse: By nature, at birth, spiritually we are like a lifeless corpse!
  • body: She is leaning over a lifeless male body laying on a train platform.
  • planet: On an almost lifeless planet in a remote star system, Earth Colony Phoenix is struggling to survive.
  • object: Its residues were lifeless objects which looked best under museum lighting.
  • eye: He glares into your white, lifeless eyes with distain, his wings flitting behind him powerfully.
  • thing: I get what your saying about the lifeless thing but i'm in that kinda state anyway so it doesnt bother me.

Used with adjective complement

  • lie: After a while the boy lies almost lifeless in a ditch.
  • seem: What fish could be seen all seemed rather lifeless.
  • fall: With an insane laugh, TIM released the girl from his grip and she fell lifeless to the ground at Liz ' feet.
  • feel: I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.
  • become: Later on, therefore, his poetry becomes lifeless.
  • look: Tidying up bits of the city is fine, but why does the Center and Old Market look so lifeless now?
lifeless Quotes

No matter how vital experiencemight be whileyou lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

—Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approachesö They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

—Williams,William Carlos