Why this word is great
STILLBORN — [Adjective] Dead at birth, or figuratively, failing or ineffective from the very inception. From English still (in the euphemistic sense of "dead, motionless") + born. Unlike "abortive," which implies a premature halting, or "lifeless," which denotes a general inertness, stillborn carries the specific, devastating finality of a conclusion arriving precisely at the moment designated for a beginning. It is the terrible silence where a first cry was awaited, the political initiative smothered by dawn, the poem that evaporates upon waking—a promise that arrived, perfectly formed, into a world it would never inhabit.