alive vs dead
Definitions
adjective
- capable of erupting
- in operation
- (followed by `to' or `of') aware of
- mentally perceptive and responsive
- (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit
Examples
Not feeling hungry again until about ten that night, we strolled along to the same street that had earlier been alive with culinary possibilities.
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.
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Definitions
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
adjective
- not surviving in active use
- unerringly accurate
- lacking resilience or bounce
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not circulating or flowing
adverb
- quickly and without warning
- 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.
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!
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
