stillborn
pronunciation
How to pronounce stillborn in British English:
UK [ˈstɪlbɔ:n]
How to pronounce stillborn in American English:
US [ˈstɪlbɔrn]
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- Adjective:
- failing to accomplish an intended result
- (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn
Word Origin
- stillborn (adj.)
- 1590s, from still (adj.) + born. As a noun from 1913; still (n.) in this sense is attested from 1863 in undertaker's slang."
Example
- 1. Grief is hardly a competition , but horton is right : stillborn grief is different .
- 2. One kitten was stillborn and another died during birth .
- 3. Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn .
- 4. I am he of empty crib and stillborn foal !
- 5. Trapped without recourse to any escape , these spirits began to reincarnate in human bodies , inhabiting the forms of children who should have died stillborn and soulless .