dead-alive en · ADJ
Meanings
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Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.
1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
Forms
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| more dead-alive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most dead-alive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
bg скучен (Dull; lifeless) · bg вял (Dull; lifeless)