alive vs dead

Definitions

adjective

1. capable of erupting
2. in operation
3. (followed by `to' or `of') aware of
4. mentally perceptive and responsive
5. (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit

Examples

Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience. 

Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.

I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical.

View all examples

Definitions

noun

1. people who are no longer living
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

adjective

1. not surviving in active use
2. unerringly accurate
3. lacking resilience or bounce
4. lacking acoustic resonance
5. not circulating or flowing

adverb

1. quickly and without warning
2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

Examples

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.

I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical.

You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill!

View all examples