adjective
- Deprived of life; no longer living.
- usage: "a lifeless body"
- synonyms: exanimate
- Destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings.
- usage: "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
- Lacking animation or excitement or activity.
- usage: "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
- Not having the capacity to support life.
- usage: "a lifeless planet"
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