Spell Bee Word: Dead

Basic Details

Word: Dead

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: No longer alive. We also say a thing is dead when it has stopped working, like a dead battery.

Synonyms: lifeless

Antonyms: alive, living

How to Spell Dead

Syllables: dead

Tricky part: The short e sound is written ea, as in head and bread. Children often write ded.

Watch out for: ded, dedd, daed

Memory tip: Head, bread and dead all use ea for a short e. Write the three in a column and the ea lines up in each one.

Idioms and Phrases

1. dead tired: Very, very tired. Example: "After the school trip to the fort, we were all dead tired."

Usage Examples

Example 1: The plant on the window sill is dead because nobody watered it.

Example 2: My torch will not work; the battery is dead.

Example 3: We found a dead beetle under the bench.

Fun Fact

The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it easily, and its shore is the lowest land on Earth, more than 400 metres below sea level.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

dead

a) still
b) alive
c) sleepy
d) lifeless

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sweter
b) hevy
c) dead
d) brekfast

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The old tree near our gate is ded, so its branches have no leaves.

a) leaves
b) ded
c) branches
d) gate

Multiple Choice Questions

1. My phone will not switch on because the battery is dead. Dead means the battery ____.

a) is wet
b) is brand new
c) is shiny
d) has no power left

2. Which of these is dead?

a) a growing mango tree
b) a puppy playing
c) a dry leaf that fell last month
d) a fish swimming