Usually means: Arrived too late, beyond saving.
Definitions Related words Mentions
We found 7 dictionaries that define the word dead on arrival:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead on arrival: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead on arrival: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead on arrival: Wiktionary
  4. Dead on Arrival (song), Dead on arrival: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead on arrival: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead on arrival: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead on arrival)

adjective:  (of a patient) Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital.
adjective:  Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police.
adjective:  (slang) Of a new item: received broken.
adjective:  (slang) Being a failure from the start, a nonstarter.

Similar:

Words similar to dead on arrival

Usage examples for dead on arrival

Idioms related to dead on arrival

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular nouns described by dead on arrival

Words that often appear near dead on arrival

Rhymes of dead on arrival

Invented words related to dead on arrival

Similar:



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux