flatlined
No more pulse
Flatlined comes from the flat line on a heart monitor when cardiac activity stops.
Literally, to flatline is to die or experience cardiac arrest: The patient flatlined twice during surgery.
Figuratively, it describes anything that has stopped progressing or gone completely inactive: Sales flatlined after the initial buzz, The project flatlined when funding dried up.
Abrupt cessation of circulation
- asystoleZero cardiac electrical activity
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- defibrillatorHeart-shocking medical device
- CPREmergency revival technique
code blue · pulseless · clinically dead · ECG · ventilator · life support · ICU · intensive care
Stopped increasing or improving
- stalledStopped unexpectedly
- staticWithout motion or change
- moribundNear death, failing
- bottomed outReached the minimum
tanked · collapsed · crashed · failed · slumped · declined · faltered · cratered
Deeply unconscious, unrousable
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- vegetativeOf plant growth
- catatonicImmobile from mental withdrawal
- lifelessDevoid of animation
inert · motionless · insensate · brain-dead · unresponsive · stupor · senseless · anesthetized
Expressionless, especially for humor
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- flatLacking vertical variation
- tonelessLacking pitch variation
- droningSustained monotonous sound
unemotional · uninflected · dull · affectless · wooden · blank
cardiac arrest
Abrupt cessation of circulation
- asystoleZero cardiac electrical activity
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- defibrillatorHeart-shocking medical device
CPR · code blue · pulseless · clinically dead · ECG · ventilator · life support · ICU · intensive care · paramedic
plateaued
Stopped increasing or improving
bottomed out · tanked · collapsed · crashed · failed · slumped · declined · faltered · cratered · petered out
comatose
Deeply unconscious, unrousable
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- vegetativeOf plant growth
- catatonicImmobile from mental withdrawal
lifeless · inert · motionless · insensate · brain-dead · unresponsive · stupor · senseless · anesthetized · paralyzed
deadpan
Expressionless, especially for humor
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- flatLacking vertical variation
- tonelessLacking pitch variation
droning · unemotional · uninflected · dull · affectless · wooden · blank
- nonfunctionalbroken, malfunctioning, inoperative, out of order, nonfunctional
- incapacitatedunconscious, knocked out, out cold, passed out, comatose
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- life statusalive, dead, deceased, living, dying
- Knockoutsknockout, KO, TKO, technical knockout, knockout punch
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
flatlinedrevived
Restored to consciousness
resuscitated · alive · responsive · stabilized · breathing
flatlinedsurged
Increased suddenly and forcefully
spiked · skyrocketed · soared · boomed · peaked
flatlinedrevived
Restored to consciousness
resuscitated · saved · brought back · beating · pulsing