lifeless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite deprived of life; no longer living
    exanimate.
    • a lifeless body
  2. adjective satellite destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings
    • after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly
  3. adjective satellite lacking animation or excitement or activity
    • the party being dead we left early
    • it was a lifeless party until she arrived
  4. adjective satellite not having the capacity to support life
    • a lifeless planet

WordNet

Life"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- Life"less*ly, adv. -- Life"less*ness, n. Syn. -- Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless. -- Lifeless, Dull, Inanimate, Dead. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a want of vital energy; inanimate, a want of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.

Webster 1913