Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
LIFELESS
lifeless, exanimate
(adjective) deprived of life; no longer living; “a lifeless body”
lifeless
(adjective) not having the capacity to support life; “a lifeless planet”
lifeless
(adjective) lacking animation or excitement or activity; “the party being dead we left early”; “it was a lifeless party until she arrived”
lifeless
(adjective) destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; “after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
lifeless (comparative more lifeless, superlative most lifeless)
inanimate; having no life
dead; having lost life
uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
dull or lacking vitality
Anagrams
• self-lies
Source: Wiktionary
Life"less, a.
Definition: Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
– Life"less*ly, adv.
– Life"less*ness, n.
Syn.
– Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless.
– Lifeless, Dull, Inanimate, Dead. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a want of vital energy; inanimate, a want of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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