lifeless

Showing no vitality

Lifeless means without life.

A lifeless body is dead.

A lifeless planet has no living organisms.

Extended uses describe things lacking vitality or animation: a lifeless performance, a lifeless economy, lifeless hair.

The word suggests not just absence but disappointment—something that should have life but doesn't.

exhausted

drained

Emptied of resources

listless · lethargic · languid · fatigued · enervated · wilted · flagging · weak · feeble · wasted

dull

boring

Failing to engage interest

vapid · lackluster · uninspired · spiritless · colorless · bland · dreary · unexciting · wooden · expressionless

dead

corpse

Deceased human body

perished · departed · defunct · carrion · mortality · necrosis · rigor mortis · pallor · mortuary · funeral

motionless

still

Unmoving, or continuing

stationary · unmoving · stagnant · inert · paralyzed · suspended · petrified · rigid · fixed · torpid

barren

desert

To leave behind completely

infertile · parched · bleak · inhospitable · sterile · unproductive · fallow · scorched · windswept · stark

inanimate

rock

Solid earthen material

  • plasticCapable of being molded
  • metalHard conductive solid
  • statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness

mannequin · wax figure · dummy · puppet · effigy · sculpture · prop · decoy · figurine · replica

Categories
Opposites
biological state

lifelessalive

Having current existence

living · live · animate · breathing · quick

vitality/energy

lifelesslively

Animated and energetic

vibrant · animated · energetic · full of life · vivacious

functional state

lifelessactive

In operation now

functioning · operative · running · working · operational

Family

lifelessness, lifelessly

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG