(a.) 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.

abeyant abiotic apathetic arid asleep asleep in Jesus at rest azoic bare barren benumbed bereft of life blah blank blase bleak bloodless bored boring breathless called home carrion cataleptic catatonic characterless cold colorless croaked dead dead and gone deadened death-struck debilitated deceased defunct demised departed departed this life desert desolate destitute of life dismal done for dopey dormant drab draggy drearisome dreary droopy drugged dry dryasdust dull dumb dusty effete elephantine empty enervated etiolated exanimate extinct fade fallen finished flat food for worms foul gone gone to glory gone west groggy heavy hebetudinous ho-hum hollow in abeyance in suspense inactive inane inanimate inanimated inert inexcitable insensate insensible insentient insipid jaded jejune lackadaisical lackluster languid languorous late late lamented latent launched into eternity leaden lethargic listless logy low-spirited lumpish lusterless martyred mat moribund mute no more nonconscious nonliving numb pale pallid passed on passive pedestrian phlegmatic plodding pointless poky ponderous pooped prosaic prosy pushing up daisies released reposing resting easy sainted sated sedentary senseless slack sleeping sleepy slow sluggish slumbering smitten with death smoldering solemn somber somnolent soulless spiritless stagnant stagnating stale standing static sterile stiff still stillborn stodgy stuffy stultified superficial supine suspended taken away taken off tame tasteless tedious tiresome torpid unanimated unaroused unconscious unfeeling uninhabited uninteresting unlively unmoving unoccupied vapid vegetable vegetative wan waste weary with the Lord with the saints without life without vital functions wooden world-weary