deceased

1. 1.

   dead

   “he is deceased”

   “our dear departed friend”

   Synonymsasleepat peaceat restdepartedgone

   Similardead

   euphemism

Other forms of deceased

plural

deceaseds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deceased

What does deceased mean?

deceased means "someone who is no longer alive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deceased?

deceased has 2 syllables: decea-sed. The stress falls on "sed". In IPA it is /dɪˈsist/.

What is another word for deceased?

Close synonyms include dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deceased a common word?

deceased is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.