deader

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English

Etymology

dead +‎ -er (comparative suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix)

Adjective

deader

  1. (figuratively, humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.
    He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
    • 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed‎:
      Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."
    • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street‎:
      The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...

Noun

deader (plural deaders)

  1. (informal, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
    I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
    • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet‎:
      "No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
      "Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
      "Yes, they all went except you and me...

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From English dead +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

deader

  1. (slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")
    • 2018, “Djadja”, in Djadja, performed by Aya Nakamura:
      J’suis pas ta catin Djadja, genre en catchana baby tu dead ça.
      I ain't your bitch Djadja, no one believes you kill it doing doggystyle.

Usage notes

Only used as infinitive or past participle as dead.

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