dead-alive

== English == === Adjective === dead-alive (comparative more dead-alive, superlative most dead-alive) Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality. 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack. ==== Related terms ==== dead or alive ==== Translations ====