Deceased Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-sēst
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perished
  2. croaked
  3. expired
  4. passed
  5. gone
  6. died
  7. succumbed
  8. choked
  9. conked
  10. exited
  11. dropped
  12. departed
  13. demised
  14. ceased
Antonyms:
  1. borne
  2. bore
Someone who is no longer alive
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dead-person
  2. dead soul
  3. deceased person
  4. decedent
  5. departed
No longer living; dead.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dead

Words Related to Deceased

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. live
  2. lived
  3. the deceased
  4. decease
  5. deceased-s
  6. administratrix
  7. widow
  8. testator

Deceased Sentence Examples

  • The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.

  • Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives.

  • I can't say if I knew the deceased but the Wanaka and all the mines send us so many of their workers I may have.

  • The deceased rao had declared himself a Mahommedan, and his adherents were preparing to inter his body in a magnificent tomb, when the Jarejas and other Hindus seized the corpse and consigned it to the flames, according to Hindu custom.

  • The widow and mother of the deceased prince claimed the whole of this treasure under the terms of a will which was never produced.

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