Usually means: Born dead; no signs of life.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stillborn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stillborn: Merriam-Webster
  3. stillborn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stillborn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stillborn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stillborn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stillborn, stillborn: Wordnik
  8. stillborn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stillborn: Wiktionary
  10. stillborn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stillborn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stillborn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stillborn: Dictionary.com
  14. stillborn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stillborn (Black Label Society song), Stillborn (Malevolent Creation album), Stillborn (album), Stillborn (band), Stillborn (song), Stillborn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stillborn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stillborn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stillborn: Rhymezone
  19. Stillborn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stillborn: FreeDictionary.org
  21. stillborn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stillborn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stillborn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. stillborn: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  5. stillborn: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stillborn: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Dead at birth.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
▸ noun:  A baby that is born dead.

Similar:
dead, abortive, unfruitful, unsuccessful, born sleeping, birthless, dead-in-shell, gone, unlived, orphaned, more...

Opposite:
live birth, born alive, viable birth

Phrases:
stillborn infant, more...

Adjectives:
syphilitic, premature, week, fetus, first, infant, hydropic, own, future, previous, womb

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Similar:
dead, abortive, unfruitful, unsuccessful, born sleeping, birthless, dead-in-shell, gone, unlived, orphaned, more...

Opposite:
live birth, born alive, viable birth

Phrases:
stillborn infant, more...

Adjectives:
syphilitic, premature, week, fetus, first, infant, hydropic, own, future, previous, womb

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     pale blue,     pale pink, more...



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