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lifelessness

/lahyf-lis/US // ˈlaɪf lɪs //UK // (ˈlaɪflɪs) //

无生命,无生命力,无生命状态,无生机

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
    • : destitute of living things: a lifeless planet.
    • : deprived of life; dead: a battlefield strewn with lifeless bodies.
    • : without animation, liveliness, or spirit; dull; colorless; torpid: a lifeless performance of a play.
    • : insensible, as a person who has fainted.

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Examples

  • For now, spend a few minutes basking in the weird dance moves of these lovable, lifeless robots, and consider how far this kind of bot has come over the years.

  • A naked child curled up on the ground, abandoned, almost lifeless, has a chain at his navel, a symbol of a grave and painful bond with the mother who left him.

  • A garden overstuffed with conifers seems to me to be static and lifeless, ironically, and the surfeit of pointed shapes against the sky is unsettling in some indefinable way.

  • Pros know that taking your backyard from dull and lifeless to magical is largely a matter of creative lighting.

  • A grieving Lopez Boada wears a medical mask as she cradles Pavón’s seemingly lifeless body in “Pieta,” one of several riffs on Christian accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection.

  • As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever.

  • As if, after all the above, one would want anything that reeked of lifeless imitation.

  • At the edge of an already excavated grave a single bullet was fired into the back of her head and she fell lifeless into the hole.

  • In that image too, a young boy stands only feet from a lifeless corpse bound to a cross and publicly displayed.

  • But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.

  • "Looks like some wild beast had attacked him," muttered the old man, in awed tones, as he bent over the lifeless body.

  • The condemned gathered sadly around the remains of their lifeless companion.

  • The ax was to sever the head from the lifeless body, and all the headless trunks were to be interred together.

  • The point pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless upon the frozen ground.

  • Standing by the cold, lifeless form of his little daughter, he promised God that he would meet her in heaven.