Synonyms for deceased
dɪˈsistde·ceased

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1. deceasednoun

   No longer alive

   Synonyms:
   deceased person, at rest, late, at peace, dead, departed, gone, asleep, dead person, dead soul, decedent

2. deceasednoun

   Synonyms:
   dead souls, departed, deceased people, dead people, decedents

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deceased

   Synonyms:
   dead, defunct, dispirited, dull, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless

   Antonyms:
   active, alert, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, existent, existing, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivacious

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departedadjective

   someone who is no longer alive

   "I wonder what the dead person would have done"

   Synonyms:
   deceased person, dead soul, decedent, departed, dead person

   Antonyms:
   alive(p), live

2. asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, goneadjective

   dead

   "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

   Antonyms:
   live, alive(p)

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1. dead

   Submitted by acronimous on April 29, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deceasedadjective

   Synonyms:
   dead, defunct

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1. List of paraphrases for "deceased":

   died, dead, late, decedent, defunct, departed, -deceased

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1. Howard Fields:

   When the COVID virus came it was almost like it was inspirational to make that because there are so many family members – that were afraid to even come into the funeral home that wanted to see their deceased loved ones.

2. Grady Judd:

   I will never be able to unsee that mother with that deceased infant in her arms, it is a horror of the utmost magnitude.

3. Tom Hudachko:

   We're looking at all potential contacts between the deceased patient and the new case, we're also doing mosquito trapping near the residence where these individuals lived to make sure this is not a potential route of transmission.

4. George Paul:

   Realistically, we are looking at these animals dying in the next decade or so. But hopefully, using artificial methods of reproduction, we might be able to bring them back in the future, this might mean that it will happen when the current animals are already deceased, but it could happen.

5. Moureen Odero:

   The locals who wanted to get a foothold into the mining industry viewed the deceased as an outsider who had been given a license to exploit the mineral wealth on their land.