departed

1. 1.

   someone who is no longer alive

   “I wonder what the dead person would have done”

   Synonymsdead persondead souldeceased persondeceaseddecedent

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerinfernalLazaruszombi

   Part ofdead

Other forms of departed

plural

departeds·

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 departed

What does departed mean?

departed means "well in the past; former". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in departed?

departed has 3 syllables: de-par-ted. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɑɹtɪd/.

What is another word for departed?

Close synonyms include bygone, bypast, foregone, gone, asleep. 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 departed a common word?

departed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with departed?

1 word rhymes with departed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.