stillborn
adj/ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)n/
Etymology
Definitions
Dead at birth.
- Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
- 1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16, Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset
Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
- This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
- His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.
A baby that is born dead.
- About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for stillborn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA