Definition of "stillborn"

stillborn

/ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)n/

adjective
not comparable
1. Dead at birth.
  Quotations
  Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
  1768, Horace Walpole, Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III
  Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
  1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16
2. (figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
  Quotations
  This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
  1859, Charles Reade, chapter 11, in Love Me Little, Love Me Long
  His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.
  1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 18, in The Highgrader
noun
plural stillborns
1. A baby that is born dead.
  Quotations
  About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
  2016, Alok Sharma, A Practical Guide to Third Trimester of Pregnancy & Puerperium