dead person

Questions about dead person

What is another word for dead person?

It depends which dead person you mean. In the sense “someone who is no longer alive”, the synonyms are dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of dead person?

WordNet records no antonym for dead person. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for dead person come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of dead person

• Full entry for dead personAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dead personWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.