deadened

The word “deadened” has 2 syllables: dead-en

It's pronounced as /ˈdɛdənd/


What is synonym and antonym for deadened?

In the thesaurus, “deadened” has 185 synonyms and 120 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for deadened along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for deadened

  • abated
  • alleviated
  • anesthetized
  • apathetic
  • ashen
  • aside
  • asleep
  • bated
  • benumbed
  • bland
  • bleached
  • blunted
  • blurred
  • breathless
  • brutal
  • burned out
  • burnt out
  • callous
  • cantankerous
  • castrated
  • cauterized
  • chilled
  • churlish
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • cold fish
  • cold-blooded
  • cold-hearted
  • corpselike
  • crotchety
  • cruel
  • damped
  • dampened
  • daunted
  • dead
  • deathful
  • deathlike
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • decreased
  • deep
  • dehydrated
  • delicate
  • demoralized
  • desiccated
  • devitalized
  • did in
  • dim
  • diminished
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dispirited
  • distant
  • drained
  • drugged
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusty
  • dwindled
  • eased
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • epicene
  • exacting
  • exhausted
  • faded
  • faint
  • faltering
  • far-off
  • fatigued
  • feeble
  • feelingless
  • flat
  • frigid
  • gelded
  • gentle
  • ghastly
  • hard
  • hardened
  • hazy
  • heartless
  • hoarse
  • hushed
  • icy
  • ill-defined
  • immune to
  • impassible
  • impassive
  • imperceptible
  • impervious to
  • inanimate
  • inaudible
  • indistinct
  • inhuman
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insusceptible
  • iron-hearted
  • lenient
  • lessened
  • light
  • lightened
  • lobotomized
  • low
  • low-pitched
  • lowered
  • merciless
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moderated
  • muffled
  • murmuring
  • mute
  • muted
  • muttering
  • nipped
  • nonreactive
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obdurate
  • obscure
  • obtunded
  • out of earshot
  • padded
  • pale
  • pallid
  • petrified
  • piano
  • pitiless
  • quiet
  • receded
  • reduced
  • remote
  • ruthless
  • sapped
  • sensationless
  • senseless
  • severe
  • shadowy
  • silenced
  • slight
  • smooth
  • soft
  • softened
  • soothing
  • spiritless
  • stifled
  • stony
  • strangled
  • stupefied
  • subdued
  • subsided
  • suppressed
  • surly
  • tenuous
  • thick-skinned
  • thin
  • torpid
  • tough
  • unamiable
  • unanimated
  • uncaring
  • unclear
  • uncompassionate
  • unconscious
  • uncordial
  • undermined
  • unemotional
  • unfeeling
  • unimpressionable
  • unkind
  • unresponsive
  • unsusceptible
  • unsympathetic
  • vague
  • wan
  • waned
  • weak
  • weakened
  • whispered
  • white
  • wooden
  • wore
  • wore out

Antonyms for deadened

  • abetted
  • amplified
  • animated
  • animating
  • aroused
  • augmented
  • awake
  • aware
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • boosted
  • braced
  • brave
  • bright
  • buoyed
  • caring
  • certain
  • charged
  • cheered
  • clear
  • close
  • colorful
  • concerned
  • consolidated
  • courageous
  • deepened
  • definite
  • distinct
  • electrified
  • emboldened
  • energized
  • energizing
  • enflamed
  • enhanced
  • enlivened
  • excited
  • feeling
  • fermented
  • fired
  • firm
  • fomented
  • fortified
  • friendly
  • galvanized
  • harmless
  • harsh
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • heartened
  • heavy
  • heightened
  • impressionable
  • incited
  • inflamed
  • inspired
  • instigated
  • intelligent
  • intensified
  • interested
  • invigorated
  • invigorating
  • kindled
  • lifted
  • light
  • lively
  • loud
  • loving
  • magnified
  • mindful
  • near
  • nearby
  • provoked
  • quickened
  • re-energized
  • reactivated
  • reanimated
  • reawaked
  • reawakened
  • reawoke
  • recharged
  • redoubled
  • reenergized
  • refreshed
  • regenerated
  • rejuvenated
  • rekindled
  • renewed
  • resolute
  • responsive
  • resurrected
  • resuscitated
  • revitalized
  • revived
  • rough
  • roused
  • sensate
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • smart
  • sparked
  • spirited
  • stepped up
  • stimulated
  • stirred
  • strengthened
  • strong
  • sure
  • thick
  • touched
  • triggered
  • unblocked
  • uncontrolled
  • violent
  • vitalized
  • vivified
  • warm
  • whetted
  • wholesome

Meanings of deadened

  • verb
    1. To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
    2. To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
    3. To make soundproof.

Example Sentences

  • The pain medication deadened the sensation in her injured arm.
  • Over time, the constant noise from the highway had deadened her ability to sleep deeply.
  • The impact of the tragedy deadened the spirits of the community.
  • The snow deadened the sound of footsteps as they walked through the forest.
  • The monotony of the routine had deadened his enthusiasm for his job.

On this page you'll find 305 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to deadened, such as: abated, abetted, alleviated, amplified, anesthetized, animated, animating.

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Related Words

damped

  • abated
  • alleviated
  • bathed
  • bedewed
  • benumbed
  • blunted
  • burned out
  • burnt out
  • castrated
  • cauterized
  • choked
  • dampened
  • daunted
  • dead
  • deadened
  • debilitated
  • decreased
  • dehydrated
  • demoralized
  • desiccated
  • devitalized
  • did in
  • diminished
  • dipped
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dispirited
  • doused
  • dowsed
  • drained
  • drenched
  • dulled
  • dunked
  • dwindled
  • eased
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • exhausted
  • extinguished
  • fatigued
  • flushed
  • gelded
  • humidified
  • immerged
  • immersed
  • impregnated
  • irrigated
  • laved
  • lessened
  • lightened
  • lobotomized
  • lowered
  • moderated
  • moistened
  • muffled
  • muted
  • numbed
  • petrified
  • quenched
  • receded
  • reduced
  • refreshed
  • rehydrated
  • remoistened
  • rinsed
  • sapped
  • saturated
  • sluiced
  • smothered
  • soaked
  • soused
  • steeped
  • subdued
  • subsided
  • suffocated
  • undermined
  • waned
  • washed
  • watered
  • weakened
  • wet
  • wetted
  • wore
  • wore out

dampened

  • abated
  • abject
  • all torn up
  • alleviated
  • atrabilious
  • bathed
  • bedewed
  • benumbed
  • black
  • bleak
  • blunted
  • broody
  • bummed out
  • burned out
  • burnt out
  • cast down
  • castrated
  • cauterized
  • cheerless
  • clouded
  • crestfallen
  • damped
  • dashed
  • daunted
  • deadened
  • debilitated
  • decreased
  • dehydrated
  • demoralized
  • desiccated
  • despondent
  • devitalized
  • did in
  • diminished
  • dipped
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • doused
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dowsed
  • dragged
  • drained
  • drenched
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dulled
  • dunked
  • dwindled
  • eased
  • emasculated
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • exhausted
  • fatigued
  • flushed
  • gelded
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • heavy-hearted
  • humidified
  • hurting
  • immerged
  • immersed
  • impregnated
  • in the pits
  • irrigated
  • knackered
  • laved
  • lessened
  • lightened
  • lobotomized
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lowered
  • melancholy
  • miserable
  • moderated
  • moistened
  • moody
  • mopey
  • mopish
  • morose
  • muffled
  • muted
  • numbed
  • petrified
  • receded
  • reduced
  • refreshed
  • rehydrated
  • remoistened
  • rinsed
  • sad
  • sagging
  • sapped
  • saturated
  • shot down
  • sluiced
  • soaked
  • soused
  • spiritless
  • steeped
  • subdued
  • subsided
  • tired
  • undermined
  • unmanned
  • waned
  • washed
  • watered
  • weakened
  • weary
  • wet
  • wetted
  • woebegone
  • wore
  • wore out
  • wretched

daunted

  • Milquetoast
  • abashed
  • afflicted
  • affrighted
  • afraid
  • aghast
  • agitated
  • alarmed
  • ambivalent
  • anxious
  • appalled
  • apprehensive
  • aroused
  • bad
  • badgered
  • bashful
  • beat
  • beat-down
  • blanched
  • blue
  • bothered
  • brooding
  • browbeat
  • browbeaten
  • bullied
  • bummed out
  • capricious
  • careful
  • cast down
  • cautious
  • caved-in
  • chapfallen
  • cheerless
  • chicken
  • chilled
  • coward
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • cowering
  • coy
  • craven
  • crestfallen
  • damped
  • dampened
  • dashed
  • deadened
  • debilitated
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • demure
  • depressed
  • despondent
  • deterred
  • diffident
  • disappointed
  • disconcerted
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • down-in-the-mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • droopy
  • dull
  • enfeebled
  • faint-hearted
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • feeble
  • forlorn
  • frightened
  • frozen
  • frustrated
  • funky
  • gentle
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gone to pieces
  • gutless
  • have cold feet
  • having cold feet
  • heartsick
  • heedful
  • horrified
  • horror-struck
  • humble
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • in a funk
  • in awe
  • in blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • intimidated
  • irked
  • irresolute
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • lily-livered
  • listless
  • lost momentum
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • miserable
  • modest
  • moody
  • mopey
  • morose
  • mousy
  • nervous
  • oppressed
  • panic-stricken
  • panicked
  • panicky
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • pessimistic
  • petrified
  • phobic
  • prudent
  • pusillanimous
  • rattled
  • retiring
  • run scared
  • sad
  • saddened
  • scared
  • scared stiff
  • scared to death
  • scary
  • shaky
  • shocked
  • shot down
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • singing the blues
  • skittish
  • soft
  • spineless
  • spiritless
  • spooked
  • startled
  • stunned
  • submissive
  • sunk
  • suspicious
  • terrified
  • terror-stricken
  • terrorized
  • threw cold water on
  • timid
  • timorous
  • trembling
  • tremulant
  • tremulous
  • tried
  • troubled
  • unadventurous
  • unassertive
  • unassured
  • undermined
  • uneasy
  • unmanned
  • unnerved
  • upset
  • vacillating
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wary
  • wavering
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weighed
  • weighed down
  • woebegone
  • worried
  • yellow

dazed

  • addle
  • addled
  • addlepated
  • at sea
  • banged
  • bashed
  • battered
  • beat
  • bedazzled
  • bedeviled
  • befogged
  • befuddled
  • belted
  • bemused
  • benumbed
  • bewildered
  • blinded
  • bludgeoned
  • bonked
  • bopped
  • bowled over
  • buffeted
  • bunged
  • bushed
  • chopped
  • clobbered
  • clocked
  • clouted
  • confounded
  • confused
  • cuffed
  • dazzled
  • deadened
  • disoriented
  • distracted
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • drubbed
  • fogged
  • hammered
  • hit
  • knocked down
  • knocked for a loop
  • knocked out
  • knocked silly
  • mangled
  • mauled
  • mixed-up
  • muddleheaded
  • muzzy
  • numbed
  • out of it
  • overpowered
  • overwhelmed
  • paralyzed
  • pasted
  • pelted
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • pounded
  • pummeled
  • pummelled
  • punch-drunk
  • punched
  • punchy
  • raddled
  • rapped
  • rocked
  • senseless
  • shell-shocked
  • silly
  • slammed
  • slaphappy
  • slapped
  • slugged
  • smacked
  • smote
  • socked
  • spaced
  • spaced-out
  • spacey
  • spacy
  • struck
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • swatted
  • thumped
  • thwacked
  • unconscious
  • walloped
  • whacked
  • whaled
  • zonked
  • zonked-out

dead

  • abeyant
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • all
  • all in
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • all-out
  • altogether
  • anesthetized
  • antiquated
  • apathetic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • arrested
  • as the crow flies
  • asleep
  • at length
  • at rest
  • authentic
  • aweary
  • baked
  • baleful
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • basically
  • beat
  • beaten
  • benumbed
  • bereft of life
  • bitten the dust
  • bland
  • blank
  • bleak
  • bleary
  • bloodless
  • blooming
  • blunted
  • bodacious
  • boney
  • bony
  • boring
  • bought the farm
  • breathless
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • buried
  • burned-out
  • burnt-out
  • bushed
  • by and large
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • cadaverous
  • callous
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorically
  • checked out
  • chiefly
  • chilled
  • classic
  • clean
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • comatose
  • complete
  • completely
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consumed
  • consummate
  • copiously
  • crashing
  • cut off
  • damn
  • damned
  • dated
  • deadened
  • deadly
  • deadness
  • death
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • deceased
  • definite
  • defunct
  • dehydrated
  • demised
  • departed
  • depleted
  • desert
  • desolate
  • dilute
  • diminished
  • direct
  • directly
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • downright
  • drained
  • dreadful
  • dried-up
  • droughty
  • drowsy
  • drugged
  • dry
  • due
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dying
  • endangered
  • endless
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • erased
  • eternal
  • even
  • exactly
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expired
  • extinct
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • faded
  • fading
  • fair
  • fallen
  • fallow
  • fast
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fatigued
  • fell
  • finished
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flavorless
  • for fair
  • free
  • frightful
  • frigid
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • genuine
  • ghostlike
  • ghostly
  • gone
  • gone to meet maker
  • gone to reward
  • grave
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hands down
  • hardscrabble
  • heartily
  • heavy
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • impoverished
  • in whole
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insipid
  • interrupted
  • inveterate
  • jaded
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • killer
  • knackered
  • lapsed
  • largely
  • late
  • latent
  • lessened
  • lethal
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • lifelessness
  • limp
  • liquidated
  • loggy
  • logy
  • lost
  • low
  • macabre
  • main
  • mainly
  • missing
  • more or less
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • mortality
  • mortuary
  • mostly
  • murderous
  • nipped
  • no more
  • nonexistent
  • nonextant
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonliving
  • not existing
  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
  • obtunded
  • off
  • offed
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overall
  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
  • overthrown
  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
  • pestilent
  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
  • plump
  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • sapped
  • savorless
  • sear
  • senseless
  • sere
  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
  • stiff
  • still
  • stillborn
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
  • straightway
  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
  • terminated
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
  • total
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
  • washed-out
  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

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