Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stillborn \Still"born`\, a.
Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 dead at birth. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) ignore, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
WordNet
adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" [syn: abortive, unsuccessful]
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"
Wikipedia
Stillborn may refer to:
- stillbirth in medicine
- Stillborn (band), from Poland
- "Stillborn" (song), a 2003 song by Black Label Society
- Stillborn (album), a 1993 album by Malevolent Creation
"Stillborn" is a song from the Black Label Society album The Blessed Hellride. The song was also released as a single. Wylde's own vocal style also became quite similar to Ozzy Osbourne's for this record, while Osbourne was featured in the song on chorus singing with Zakk the lines, "The feelings I once felt are now Dead and gone. I've waited here for you for so very long."
"Stillborn" tells the story of a man whose girlfriend treats him so poorly and takes so much advantage of him that his love for her dies, leaving him feeling dead as well. Wylde insists that it is not autobiographical and that if any girl were to treat him like that, he would simply break up with her.
The video was directed by Rob Zombie, featuring his signature style of blue lighting, zombies, and a regular female cameo, Rob Zombie's wife Sheri Moon Zombie. The idea came together while touring together on Ozzfest.
Wylde has performed an acoustic version of "Stillborn" that is not only longer but also features a much different sound, following an acoustic solo throughout much of song.
The song also appears in the game Guitar Hero World Tour, with the singer as Zakk Wylde. It is the encore in the guitar career after defeating Wylde in a guitar duel.
Stillborn is the third full length studio album by Florida death metal band Malevolent Creation. It was released in 1993 on Roadrunner Records.
Stillborn is a Polish blackened death metal band.
Usage examples of "stillborn".
What the black stripes on acetate had delineated with clinical detachment, the photographs in the book revealed with horrifying detail: limbless embryos, Cyclopean fetuses, hydrocephalic stillborn children.
As her climax died into a stillborn whimper, Celeste stared at Jarred in open-mouthed shock.
In his sleep, he dreamed of that day when every child was stillborn, that day when the Consult, beaten back to the black ramparts of Golgotterath by the Nonmen and the ancient Norsirai, brought emptiness, absolute and terrible, into the world: Mog-Pharau, the No-God.
The Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto did not always agreeor so snippets of gossip saidbut in this they were united: stillborn children or infants who died were not worth mourning.
Campbell quotes the case of a Polish woman, aged thirty-five, the mother of nine children, most of whom were stillborn, who conceived for the tenth time, the gestation being normal up to the lying-in period.
In the outlines of stillborn streets shacks of concrete and corrugated iron blistered overnight.
Traggis Mole gave the word, the winchman began turning the crank, and the board holding the stillborn infant was lowered into the Rift.
Sharon Tate and friends murdered by Manson's girls seven days before Woodstock, the Age of Aquarius stillborn, but the death unrecognized for years.
Perhaps Stillborn saw the intent in his eyes, for he drew attention to himself by plucking a blood sausage from the heart of the fire and dancing the scorching offal between his fingers like a hotcake.
He felt that they were at ease, and from such mental relaxation would frequently come a sound suggestion, or a constructive criticism, which would be stillborn, stifled in a more formal talk.
It is her daughter, I am thinking, whose own dear babe came stillborn this forenight past.
Thinly scattered though those remnants of a stillborn world are, they could profitably be worked by robots, as could the Jovian moons at times around inferior conjunction.
A malformed or stillborn Beltane child portended famine and plague next year.
Occasionally someone would propose a toast to Raif or Stillborn, and the Maimed Men would rouse themselves to grunt their support.
When Traggis Mole gave the word, the winchman began turning the crank, and the board holding the stillborn infant was lowered into the Rift.