Difference between Lifeless and Dead

What is the difference between Lifeless and Dead?

Lifeless as an adjective is inanimate; having no life while Dead as an adjective is no longer living.

Lifeless

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: inanimate; having no life dead; having lost life uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life dull or lacking vitality departed

Example sentence: To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'

Dead

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.Those who have died.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: No longer living.Figuratively, not alive; lacking lifebe dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.Without emotion.Stationary; static.Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.Unproductive.Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.Broken or inoperable.No longer used or required.Not in play.Full and complete.Exact.Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Exactly right.Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to prevent by disabling; stop

Example sentence: Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

We hope you now know whether to use Lifeless or Dead in your sentence.

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