STILLBORN Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

stillborn

adjective

Definition of stillborn

as in deceased

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Recent Examples of stillborn But the company was nearly stillborn when Brodeur-Urbas’ original founding partner quit out of the blue. — Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Their own two sons had been stillborn, and Anne and Abel, now in their 40s, wanted badly to be parents. — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026 On Monday, June 22, the podcast host and widow of The Wanted's Tom Parker, 36, appeared on the British morning show This Morning and shared heartbreaking details about giving birth in June 2025 to her son Phoenix, who was stillborn, with her partner Will Lindsay. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026 Only around 2 percent of births in seventeenth-century England were stillborn due to obstruction. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for stillborn

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Brain donations from deceased football players have risen in recent years, prompting researchers to take a fresh look at the risk and extent of CTE with respect to dementia diagnoses.

— Mike McRae September 15, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2026
Ploger's parents -- his father is retired and his mother, Marguerite, is deceased -- were originally from Owosso.

— Sheryl Lee, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deceased

Adjective

Put simply, Norwood is the epitome of the AI industry getting high off its own supply, deluding itself into thinking that watching lifeless AI agents going through the motions on screen is something that anybody actually wants.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026
That same month, another whale, this one a juvenile, was found lifeless and lodged among woody debris in a Washington State river, miles from the ocean.

— Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of lifeless

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It was blamed for two deaths, including a 74-year-old man found Wednesday near Kauai's south shore and a man found dead Monday on Oahu after a large tree fell on his tent.

— GENE JOHNSON, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
To push through the change, the Nashville Airport Authority apparently had to update an actual policy that said someone must be dead for two years before having an airport named after them.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of dead

Adjective

The defunct Amtrak line, which ran more than 2,600 miles between Seattle and Chicago, ferried passengers to stops in Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake City, winding along tracks that still carve through Idaho’s Snake River Plain today.

— Rose Evans September 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026
Save the Sound has been leading efforts to demolish some of the state’s defunct and abandoned dams.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of defunct

Adjective

The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the restrictions would most likely lose in court, at least for this year's election.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Saccharide is a carbohydrate made of sugars, and the Aries season falls between late March and early April.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of late

Adjective

The incident caused street closures for a second day as crews worked to remove the fallen rig, impacting local businesses in the area.

— Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Plus, Vallejo toasts all barrels with fallen oak gathered from the estate to ensure a 100% local identity.

— Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026

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