What does stillborn mean?
Stillborn means Dead at birth..
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/ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)n/ · adjective
Dead at birth..
1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16, Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.
About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
Use stillborn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stillborn means Dead at birth..
Common synonyms include deadborn, unfruitful, dead, unsuccessful.
Possible antonyms include quickborn.
1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16, Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
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