Usually means: Completely inactive or unresponsive; lifeless.
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  1. (as) dead as a doornail, dead as a doornail: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead as a doornail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. (as) dead as a doornail, (as) dead as a doornail, dead as a doornail: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dead as a doornail: Wiktionary
  5. dead as a doornail: Dictionary.com
  6. Dead as a Doornail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Doornail, Dead as a: The Word Detective
  8. dead as a doornail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Dead as a doornail: World Wide Words

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  1. dead as a doornail: Idioms

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  1. dead as a doornail: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (simile) Unquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.

Similar:
dead as a doorknob, dead as ditch-water, dead as a herring, dead as a kipper, dead as a mackerel, dead, dead-alive, dead from the neck up, deaf as a doorknob, stone dead, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, breathing

Phrases:
(as) dead as a doornail, as dead as a doornail, more...

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Similar:
dead as a doorknob, dead as ditch-water, dead as a herring, dead as a kipper, dead as a mackerel, dead, dead-alive, dead from the neck up, deaf as a doorknob, stone dead, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, breathing

Phrases:
(as) dead as a doornail, as dead as a doornail, more...



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