From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lifeless \Life"less\, adjective 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. -- {Life"less*ly}, adverb -- {Life"less*ness}, noun
Syn: Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless.
Usage: {Lifeless}, {Dull}, {Inanimate}, {Dead}. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a lack of vital energy; inanimate, a lack of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn: {exanimate}]
2: destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
3: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" [syn: {dead}]
4: not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "lifeless": abeyant, abiotic, apathetic, arid, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, azoic, bare, barren, benumbed, bereft of life, blah, blank, blase, bleak, bloodless, bored, boring, breathless, called home, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, characterless, cold, colorless, croaked, dead, dead and gone, deadened, death-struck, debilitated, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, desert, desolate, destitute of life, dismal, done for, dopey, dormant, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, extinct, fade, fallen, finished, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory, gone west, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inert, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, insentient, insipid, jaded, jejune, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, listless, logy, low-spirited, lumpish, lusterless, martyred, mat, moribund, mute, no more, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, pale, pallid, passed on, passive, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, prosaic, prosy, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sated, sedentary, senseless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, solemn, somber, somnolent, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stale, standing, static, sterile, stiff, still, stillborn, stodgy, stuffy, stultified, superficial, supine, suspended, taken away, taken off, tame, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, torpid, unanimated, unaroused, unconscious, unfeeling, uninhabited, uninteresting, unlively, unmoving, unoccupied, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, waste, weary, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wooden, world-weary
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