stillborn

adj

1. (not-comparable)Dead at birth.

   “Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.”

   “1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16, Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?”

2. (broadly, figuratively, not-comparable)Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.

   “This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.”

   “His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.”

noun

1. A baby that is born dead.

   “About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.”