Adjective: lifeless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lifeless |
| Superlative | most lifeless |
Sample Sentences
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a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
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With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
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Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
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And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
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Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:]
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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. [2018 December 1, Tom Rostance, “Southampton 2 - 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:]
Adjectives inflected like lifeless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
levenloos', German Adjectives '
leblos', Swedish Adjectives '
livlös'.