Deceased

Adjective

 * 1) No longer alive
 * 2) * That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not ’alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein’ tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk. Monty Python
 * 3) Belonging to the dead.
 * 4) * The executor’s commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
 * : One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

Synonyms

 * asleep, at peace, at rest, dead, departed, late, gone

Noun

 * 1) A dead person
 * 2) * The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
 * 3) (plural deceased) dead people
 * 4) * A memorial to the deceased of two World Wars.
 * : One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

Synonyms

 * dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed, late
 * dead people, dead souls, deceased people, decedents, departed

Thesaurus
ago, antiquated, antique, ashes, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, blown over, body, bones, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, called home, carcass, carrion, clay, cold, corpse, corpus delicti, croaked, crowbait, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, decedent, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dry bones, dust, earth, elapsed, embalmed corpse, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, has-been, inanimate, irrecoverable, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, martyred, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, no more, obsolete, organic remains, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pushing up daisies, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, skeleton, sleeping, smitten with death, stiff, still, stillborn, taken away, taken off, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, vanished, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Afrikaans: oorlede, afgestorwe, wyle
 * Arabic:
 * Bosnian: mrtvi, pokojni , umrli
 * Bulgarian:, покоен
 * Catalan: difunt, mort
 * Croatian: mrtvi, pokojni , umrli
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek: αποθάνων,
 * Japanese: 亡くなった (nakunatta)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: falecido, morto
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мртви, покојни , умрли
 * Roman: mrtvi, pokojni , umrli
 * Slovene: preminul, pokojen
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: bestorwe


 * Hebrew: מנוח (manoakh), נפטר (nift'ar)

Noun

 * Afrikaans: oorledene, afgestorwene
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: difunt, mort
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: overledene or
 * French:
 * German: Verstorbene, Verstorbener
 * Hebrew: מנוח (manoakh), מנוחה (menokha) ; נפטר (nift'ar) , נפטרת (nift'eret)
 * Japanese: 死人 (shinin)


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: falecido
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мртвац, покојник
 * Roman: mrtvac, pokojnik
 * Slovene: preminuli, preminula , pokojnik , pokojnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: avliden, död, döing, lik, bår


 * Afrikaans: oorledenes, afgestorwenes
 * Dutch: overledenen
 * French:
 * German: Verstorbene, Tote (general)


 * Japanese: 死人 (shinin)
 * Polish: zmarli
 * Portuguese: falecidos, mortos
 * Russian: погибшие (pogíbšije)