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PULSELESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pulseless mean?
• PULSELESS (adjective)
The adjective PULSELESS has 1 sense:
1. appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Familiarity information: PULSELESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Synonyms:
breathless; inanimate; pulseless
Context example:
pulseless and dead
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Context examples
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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