Unalive

/ˌʌn.əˈlaɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Not alive; dead or inanimate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not alive; dead or inanimate.
2. Lacking vivacity and liveliness; dull or sterile.
3. Lacking energy and feeling; passionless; mechanical.
4. Lacking a fulfilling life; meaningless.
5. (often with "to") Lacking consciousness; unresponsive, indifferent or oblivious.
6. One who is unalive.
7. (transitive, proscribed) To make unalive; to kill, especially oneself; to commit suicide.
8. (intransitive, proscribed) To die.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: nonlive

John Sheldon laid down Sheilah ' s hand beside her on the bed , as if it had been a book , or something unalive, and took out of his bag near by an accessory that was almost as much a part of him as his glasses.

Often her anxiety will contribute toward making the child afraid of life and attracted to that which is unalive.

Yellow Kang the last believed unalive. Reason not known.

She was amazed that he wasn't changed , that he wasn't hurt , or perhaps utterly unalive , murdered .

I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle. But they are stubbornly unalive and therefore unwilting.

We don't experience a corpse as just an object; we experience it as an object that was once alive, but which no longer is. We experience it as "unalive" (Bt, 282).

Rebecca despises her professors because they cannot think as clearly as she can, cannot argue as well as she can, and are tired and dowdy and unalive.

Synonyms for unalive

Antonyms for unalive

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Word Forms

• more unalive
• most unalive
• unalives
• unaliving
• unalived

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