Stillborn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Dead at birth.
  • adj. Failing before or at the very beginning or inception; abortive: a stillborn plot to assassinate the President.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Dead at birth.
  • adj. Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Dead at the birth.
  • adj. Fig.: Abortive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dead at birth; born lifeless: as, a still-born child.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn
  • adj. failing to accomplish an intended result
    • Equivalent
    dead    unfruitful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deadborn    unfruitful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Born    Horn    Horne    Lorne    Thorn    Thorne    aborn    adorn    born    borne   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nine-month-old    unweaned    unlicked    untimed    bottle-fed    full-term    five-legged    athwart    unoriginated    preadolescent   
     
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