"dead-alive" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dead-alive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dead-alive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead-alive (comparative more dead-alive, superlative most dead-alive)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude\nIn 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead-alive-en-adj-lDMyt2oL",
      "links": [
        [
          "Dull",
          "dull"
        ],
        [
          "lifeless",
          "lifeless"
        ],
        [
          "originality",
          "originality"
        ],
        [
          "vitality",
          "vitality"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dead or alive"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "vjal",
          "sense": "Dull; lifeless",
          "word": "вял"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "skučen",
          "sense": "Dull; lifeless",
          "word": "скучен"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead-alive"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dead-alive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dead-alive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead-alive (comparative more dead-alive, superlative most dead-alive)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dead or alive"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude\nIn 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dull",
          "dull"
        ],
        [
          "lifeless",
          "lifeless"
        ],
        [
          "originality",
          "originality"
        ],
        [
          "vitality",
          "vitality"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vjal",
      "sense": "Dull; lifeless",
      "word": "вял"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skučen",
      "sense": "Dull; lifeless",
      "word": "скучен"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead-alive"
}