Definition of "dead-alive" in İngilizce

adjective

1. 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.