adjective
- no longer living; dead.
noun
- the deceased,
- the particular dead person or persons referred to.
- dead persons collectively: to speak well of the deceased.
adjective
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- a more formal word for dead (def. 1)
- (as noun)the deceased
late 15c., past participle adjective from decease (v.). As a verbal noun meaning “dead person, those who are dead,” from early 17c.