1. (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

2. (a.) Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.

abortive asleep asleep in Jesus at rest bearing bereft of life bootless born breathless called home calved carrion cast croaked dead dead and gone death-struck deceased defunct demised departed departed this life destitute of life done for dropped exanimate failed failing fallen finished foaled food for worms fruitless futile given birth giving birth gone gone to glory gone west hatched inanimate ineffective ineffectual inefficacious lame late late lamented launched into eternity lifeless manque martyred miscarried miscarrying nee newborn no more of no effect passed on pushing up daisies released reposing resting easy sainted sleeping smitten with death stickit still successless taken away taken off unfortunate unsuccessful useless whelped with the Lord with the saints without life without vital functions