deceased

Meanings

Adjective

• No longer alive; dead.
• Belonging to the dead.
• One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

Noun

• A dead person.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• asleep , at peace , at rest , dead, departed , late, gone
• decedent, departed, late
• decedents, departed

Origin

• From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French, from Latin dēcessus ("departure"), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō.