stillborn

stillborn
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Stillborn — Still born , a. 1. Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem. Swift. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stillborn — 1590s, from STILL (Cf. still) (adj.) + BORN (Cf. born) …   Etymology dictionary

  • stillborn — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of an infant) born dead. 2) (of a proposal or plan) having failed to develop or succeed; unrealized …   English terms dictionary

  • stillborn — [stil′bôrn′] adj. 1. dead when delivered from the womb 2. unsuccessful from the beginning; abortive …   English World dictionary

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  • stillborn — [[t]stɪ̱lbɔː(r)n[/t]] 1) ADJ A stillborn baby is dead when it is born. It was a miracle that she survived the birth of her stillborn baby... Their first child was stillborn. 2) ADJ An idea, action, or attempt which is stillborn is completely… …   English dictionary

  • stillborn — still|born [ stıl,bɔrn ] adjective 1. ) a stillborn baby is born dead 2. ) something that is stillborn ends before it ever has the chance to begin: a stillborn love affair …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • stillborn — UK [ˈstɪlˌbɔː(r)n] / US [ˈstɪlˌbɔrn] adjective 1) a stillborn baby is born dead 2) something that is stillborn ends before it ever has the chance to begin a stillborn love affair …   English dictionary

  • stillborn — adjective Date: 1593 1. dead at birth 2. failing from the start ; abortive, unsuccessful < a stillborn venture > • stillborn noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • stillborn — still|born [ˈstılbo:n, ˌstılˈbo:n US o:rn] adj [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: STILL2 dead (16 17 centuries) + born] 1.) born dead ▪ a stillborn baby 2.) written completely unsuccessful from the beginning and not developing at all ▪ a stillborn romance …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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