Deader

Quick meaning: Deader is an adjective meaning (figuratively, colloquial, chiefly humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.

Meaning

(figuratively, colloquial, chiefly humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

Example Sentences

I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.

He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.

The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot.

Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corpse-to-be, stiff, ongoer, deadpanner, deadhead, corpsey.

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