Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. No longer living; dead. See Synonyms at dead.
- n. A dead person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Departed from life; dead.
Wiktionary
- adj. No longer alive
- adj. Belonging to the dead.
- adj. law : 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.
- n. A dead person
- n. dead people
- n. law : 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Passed away; dead; gone.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. dead.
- n. someone who is no longer alive
Etymologies
- decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French, from Latin dēcessus ("departure"), equivalent to Latin dēced-, variation of Latin dēcēdre ("to go away"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Anna-Maria learns who the deceased is and her connections as a superstar employee at Kallis Mining, an international company with incredible connections at the top of Sweden, Europe and beyond.”
The Black Path-Asa Larsson « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“It seems the deceased is the brother of Raymond Barnette, local undertaker and a candidate for sheriff, who wants to keep any hint of kinkiness out of the minds of the God-fearing populace.”
Hunting Season: Summary and book reviews of Hunting Season by Nevada Barr.
“The graves with headstones have been easier to verify because officials can use the name to pull the paperwork, which consists of a record of interment, a gravesite card that details where in the cemetery the deceased is buried, and an intake form used for scheduling funerals.”
The Washington Post: Scope of burial mistakes at Arlington is a mystery
“Marsden's character, a seventh-grade teacher engaged to the niece of the deceased, is nervous about encountering his future father-in-law.”
“States, where I have read that the body of the deceased is still oiled with a fragrant oil and censed.”
“Okay, so passionately kissing the dearly deceased is creepy as all get out, but what about Bill Hader swapping spit with a dog?”
“Staff Sgt. DECEASED -- "deceased is being described as a Vietnam POW" 03/17/2005”
““The deceased is identified as the culprit and must have had the condition of excited delirium.””
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“Somehow the deceased is tied back to Prince Louis-Charles, the heir to the French throne, who was allegedly executed in THE BLACK TOWER in Thermidor Year II; or did the Lost Dauphin, who would have been King Louis XVII with the current Bourbon Restoration, somehow survive and is one of these royal pretenders.”
The Black Tower-Louis Bayard « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“They later learn the deceased is Violet Chambers who was killed with a garden plant poison and the fingers nipped by a garden shears.”
Still Waters-Nigel McCrery « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deceased’.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Dead
Adjectives meaning dead
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Vocab Lesson 18
acclaim, bigot, covet, deceased, formidable, ghetto, momentous, oppress, overwhelm, perceive, premiere, prospective and 3 more...
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mortal remains
crematorium, funeral, columbarium, mausoleum, cemetery, sepulchre, mortuary, mortician, eulogy, exsanguination, cortege, crypt and 53 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 152
cannonball, blow away, improbable, hardened, handicapper, regarded, defiance, obstacle, destined, cargo, cargo plane, Caracas and 49 more...
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powerspeaking's list
Advanced Current Events Vocabulary
Tweets
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