lifeless

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not having the capacity to support life

   a lifeless planet

2. 2
   adj

   destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings

   after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly

3. 3
   adj

   dead; having lost life

   a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, And might, if my extreames had ful euents, Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

4. 4
   adj

   dull or lacking vitality

   In a largely lifeless second half their only shot on target was a tame overhead effort from Paul Pogba, and Mourinho's already stretched squad saw Luke Shaw and Lukaku limp off late on, while Ashley Young picked up a fifth booking of the season which rules him out of Wednesday's league game at home to Arsenal.

5. 5
   adj

   deprived of life

6. 6
   adj

   lacking animation or excitement or activity

7. 7
   adj

   inanimate; having no life

8. 8
   adj

   uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life

Etymology

From Middle English lyfles, lifles, from Old English līflēas (“lifeless”), equivalent to life + -less. Cognate with West Frisian libbensleas (“lifeless”), Dutch levenloos (“lifeless”), German leblos (“lifeless”), Danish livløs (“lifeless”), Swedish livlös (“lifeless”), Icelandic líflaus (“lifeless”).