unalive

Not alive; dead or inanimate.

Near-synonym: nonlive

John Sheldon laid down Sheilah ' s hand beside her on the bed , as if it had been a book , or something unalive, and took out of his bag near by an accessory that was almost as much a part of him as his glasses.

Lacking vivacity and liveliness; dull or sterile.

Rebecca despises her professors because they cannot think as clearly as she can, cannot argue as well as she can, and are tired and dowdy and unalive.

The silent city asleep at our back , joyless and unalive.

Lacking energy and feeling; passionless; mechanical.

Rather be unhappy , and know it , than unalive, and not know it .

But now these symptoms which seemed to be bad and inimical , namely , this anxiety or guilt , prove themselves to be helpful and friendly, for they intrude themselves in order to bring healing by awakening this living yet unalive person.

Lacking a fulfilling life; meaningless.

In one rather poignant moment she reveals this predicament with her husband : if she has emasculated him throughout the years , Willie , in his own passive way , has made her feel similarly unalive: Was I ever lovable ?

And for the past six months I have been separated from my writing, and I have been nothing, or I have been walking about unalive, some indistinct shadow in a nightmare of the universe.

Lacking consciousness; unresponsive, indifferent or oblivious.

We are not unalive to the gravity of the problem of unemployment but we want co-operation here also, and we believe that , if we receive it , hundreds of young men who are now swelling the ranks of the unemployed , may achieve self-support in a happy, healthy and independent life.

The realism was largely mere recoil , by a man unalive to how beer and a ribald joke can carry the common man through bibulation ; but the hunger of the mind was a very positive thing, active in him and in many of his most remarkable characters.

One who is unalive.

Most people are the unalives the notalives, the impersons, existing in an unworld of unlove and unbeing.

The very latest of Mr. Cummings's new poems are fixed in rigid attitudes of youth, which now seem to show signs of weariness, caused by the strain of a prolonged defiance against "the sweet&aged people who rule this world," against the “unhearts,” the “unminds,” the “unalives."

To make unalive; to kill, especially oneself; to commit suicide.

Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have unalived himself, but Tucker Carlson calls this position into question.

He “unalives” bad guys, sometimes for free, and this gives him a sense of purpose, even in an absurd world.

To die.

Carl sighs, and ironically wishes to unalive out loud.