'Deceased' definitions:
Definition of 'deceased'
From: WordNet
adjective
Dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone]
noun
Someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed]
Definition of 'Deceased'
From: GCIDE
- Decease \De*cease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing.] To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. [1913 Webster]
- She's dead, deceased, she's dead. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- When our summers have deceased. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deceased'
From: GCIDE
- Deceased \De*ceased"\, a. Passed away; dead; gone. [1913 Webster]
- The deceased, the dead person. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deceased'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ago,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- ashes,
- asleep,
- asleep in Jesus,
- at rest,
- bereft of life,
- blown over,
- body,
- bones,
- breathless,
- by,
- bygone,
- bypast,
- cadaver,
- called home,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- clay,
- cold,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- croaked,
- crowbait,
- dated,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- dead and gone,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- death-struck,
- decedent,
- defunct,
- demised,
- departed,
- departed this life,
- destitute of life,
- done for,
- dry bones,
- dust,
- earth,
- elapsed,
- embalmed corpse,
- exanimate,
- expired,
- extinct,
- fallen,
- finished,
- food for worms,
- forgotten,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone to glory,
- gone west,
- gone-by,
- has-been,
- inanimate,
- irrecoverable,
- lapsed,
- late,
- late lamented,
- launched into eternity,
- lifeless,
- martyred,
- mortal remains,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- no more,
- obsolete,
- organic remains,
- over,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- passed on,
- past,
- pushing up daisies,
- released,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- reposing,
- resting easy,
- run out,
- sainted,
- skeleton,
- sleeping,
- smitten with death,
- stiff,
- still,
- stillborn,
- taken away,
- taken off,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- vanished,
- with the Lord,
- with the saints,
- without life,
- without vital functions,
- wound up