deceased
UK/dɪˈsiːst//diˈsist/
deceased adjective: no longer alive; dead.
Adjective
deceased (not comparable)
- No longer alive; dead.
- 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.1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch
- Publicity handouts from Dick's long-deceased record label would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 272
- Belonging to the dead.
- The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
- One who has died.
- Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
- You look so good, I'm deceased!
- I am deceased, my nuts have been busted.2021, Penelope Scott, “7 O'Clock” (track 1), in Hazards, performed by Penelope Scott
Noun
deceased (plural deceased or deceaseds)
- Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
- The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
- a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars
- One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
- Deceased had already made a will in his favour before her marriage, but—and Mr. Philips wagged an expressive forefinger—the prisoner was not aware of that. What had induced the deceased to make a fresh will, with the old one still extant, he could not say.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 153
deceased meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
deceased in Hindi
- no longer alive
- दिवंगत divaṅgat
deceased in Tamil
- இறந்த, மாய்வுற்ற, மாள்வுற்ற
deceased in Marathi
- deceased, late
- स्वर्गीय svargīy
deceased in Urdu
- deceased
- رفتہ rafta
More languagesFewer languages
- deceased in Bengali
- মুর্দা murda
- deceased in Telugu
- పితరులు pitarulu
- deceased in Malayalam
- മരിച്ച, മരിച്ചുപോയ, ചത്ത, ഉത്ക്രാന്ത
- deceased in Kannada
- ಪವುತಿ, ಪವತಿ, ಫವುತಿ, ಫವತಿ
- deceased in Punjabi
- ਮਿ੍ਰਤਕ
- deceased in Sanskrit
- मृत mṛtá
- deceased in Arabic
- مَيِّت مَيْت mayyit, مُتَوَفًّى mutawaffan, مَرْحُوم marḥūm
- deceased in Indonesian
- meninggal, meninggal dunia, almarhum, wafat
- deceased in Vietnamese
- người chết
Examples of deceased in a sentence
- The sleeve of the band's new CD includes illustrations from deceased former members.
- At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreathed the grave of the honoured deceased.
- The legacy was divided among the surviving children of the deceased.
Synonyms of deceased
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Forms of deceased
| plural | deceased |
|---|---|
| plural | deceaseds |
Origin of deceased
From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).
Words formed from deceased
Words that rhyme with deceased
- beast
- east
- yeast
- feast
- least
- creased
- east-northeast
- priest
- a contented mind is a perpetual feast
- batiste
- ceased
- English Harbour East
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Questions about deceased
- What does deceased mean?
- Deceased means no longer alive; dead.
- What is deceased in Hindi?
- Deceased in Hindi is दिवंगत (divaṅgat). See Deceased meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is deceased?
- Deceased can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce deceased?
- Deceased is pronounced /dɪˈsiːst/ (UK).
Words near deceased in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deceased (page history and authors); deceased (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्वर्गीय (Marathi) (page history and authors); رفتہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); মুর্দা (Bengali) (page history and authors); పితరులు (Telugu) (page history and authors); deceased (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deceased (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deceased (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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