deadest
- 1Superlative of dead.
By midnight the bar was the deadest I had seen it in years, with empty stools all down the counter.
Main Street on a Sunday felt like the deadest corner of the whole county.
Note
A superlative that grammar usually rules out: dead in its literal sense is not comparable, since no one is more deceased than deceased. The form lives in figurative ranking instead. Charlotte Brontë's "deadest hours of night" are the stillest, and Kenneth Grahame's Rosa falls "in the deadest of faints," a playful intensifier meaning the most complete. Use it for stillness, dullness or comic exaggeration, never for actual death.
deadest is a form of dead
dead, adjective: No longer living; having died and ceased all life functions. Full entry
- Spelling
- dead → deadest: add -est
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