Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Without life; dead: Describes something that is no longer alive or has never been alive.
   • Lacking vitality or animation: Describes something that is dull, spiritless, or without energy and excitement.
   • Incapable of supporting life: Describes an environment or place that is barren or devoid of living things.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The lifeless body was found in the river. (The dead body was found in the river.)
  • Her performance was flat and lifeless. (Her performance was dull and lacked energy.)
  • The surface of the moon is a lifeless landscape. (The moon's surface is a barren place that cannot support life.)

Advanced Usage

• "lifeless eyes": eyes that show no emotion, awareness, or vitality.
  • He stared back at me with cold, lifeless eyes.
• "rendered lifeless": made dead or devoid of life.
  • The poison rendered the insect lifeless in seconds.

Variants and Related Words

• Lifelessly (adverb): in a manner lacking life or energy.
  • He spoke lifelessly, as if he didn't care.
• Lifelessness (noun): the state or quality of being lifeless.
  • The lifelessness of the desert was overwhelming.

Synonyms

• Inanimate: not alive, especially not in the manner of animals and humans.
• Dead: no longer alive.
• Spiritless: lacking energy, enthusiasm, or determination.
• Barren: (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation; incapable of sustaining life.

Antonyms

• Living: alive, not dead.
• Animated: full of life or excitement; lively.
• Vibrant: full of energy and enthusiasm.

Related Phrases

• Lay lifeless: to be in a state of being dead or motionless.
  • The wounded soldier lay lifeless on the ground.
• Strike someone lifeless: to kill someone.
  • The blow struck him lifeless. (This is a literary or dramatic usage.)

Adjective

1. not having the capacity to support life
   • a lifeless planet
2. lacking animation or excitement or activity
   • the party being dead we left early
   • it was a lifeless party until she arrived
3. destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings
   • after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly
4. deprived of life; no longer living
   • a lifeless body