stillborn :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"

adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

adj. unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

adj. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

adj. destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden

adj. having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

adj. marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"

adj. having died recently; "her late husband"

adj. deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"

adj. not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"

adj. killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"

adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

adj. as lifeless as a stone

adj. producing no fruit

adj. not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"