əˈbɹʌp.li æb.səˈl(j)uːt.lɪ ˌæb.səˈlut.li ˌɔl əv ə ˈsʌdən bʊʃt dɛd dɛd dɛd dɹeɪnd ˈaɪd(ə)l nʌm ˈpɜːfɪktli ˈpɝfɪktli ʃɔːt ʃɔɹt ʃoːt ˈstæɡnənt ˈsʌdn̩li ˈʌt.ə(ɹ).li completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers an absolutely magnificent painting a perfectly idiotic idea you're perfectly right utterly miserable you can be dead sure of my innocence was dead tired dead right devoid of activity this is a dead town: nothing ever happens here physically inactive Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life the nerve is dead a dead pallor he was marked as a dead man by the assassin not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat Mars is a dead planet dead soil dead coals the fire is dead drained of electric charge; discharged a dead battery left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained the complete stoppage of an action came to a dead stop no longer having force or relevance a dead issue out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown a dead telephone line the motor is dead lacking resilience or bounce a dead tennis ball not surviving in active use Latin is a dead language not circulating or flowing dead air dead water stagnant water unerringly accurate a dead shot took dead aim not yielding a return dead capital idle funds lacking acoustic resonance dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio devoid of physical sensation; numb his gums were dead from the novocain she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive passersby were dead to our plea for help numb to the cries for mercy very tired was all in at the end of the day so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere bushed after all that exercise I'm dead after that long trip people who are no longer living they buried the dead a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense the dead of winter quickly and without warning happening unexpectedly on impulse; without premeditation he stopped suddenly suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment he made up his mind suddenly