What is the difference between deceased and dead?
deceased | dead | Synonyms |
No longer alive
* That parrot is definitely deceased , and when I purchased it not ’alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein’ tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk. Monty Python
Belonging to the dead.
* The executor’s commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
(legal): 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.
A dead person
* The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
(plural deceased ) dead people
* A memorial to the deceased of two World Wars.
(legal): 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.
(not comparable) No longer living.
(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , Act III, Scene 3:
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
Tagged out.
(not comparable) Full and complete.
(not comparable) Exact.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
(lb) Exactly right.
(lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
As if dead.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Charles Dickens)
(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(in the plural) Those who have died.
(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
To prevent by disabling; stop.
* 1826 , The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich , collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
* Chapman
(UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
* 2006 , Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks (page 178)
* 2008 , Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition (page 106)
Dead is a synonym of deceased.
In lang=en terms the difference between deceased and dead
is that deceased is : 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 while dead is cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.As adjectives the difference between deceased and dead
is that deceased is no longer alive while dead is no longer living.As nouns the difference between deceased and dead
is that deceased is a dead person while dead is (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.As an adverb dead is
exactly right.As a verb dead is
formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".deceased
English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (no longer alive) asleep, at peace, at rest, dead, departed, late, goneUsage notes
* Not to be confused with diseased (affected with or suffering from disease)Noun
(deceased)Synonyms
* (dead person) dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed, late * dead people, dead souls, deceased people, decedents, departedUsage notes
Deceased'' is commonly used in legal and journalistic settings. ''Departed is most commonly used in religious settings.dead
English
Adjective
(er)- All of my grandparents are dead .
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- He is dead to me.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
- dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
- dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
- OK, the circuit's dead . Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- That monitor is dead ; don’t bother hooking it up.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead ?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
- dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
- dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
- a dead floor
- (Shakespeare)
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
- the dead spindle of a lathe
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dead")Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* alive * livingAdverb
(-)- dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead''' wrong''; '''''dead''' set''; '''''dead''' serious''; '''''dead''' drunk''; '''''dead''' broke''; '''''dead''' earnest''; '''''dead''' certain''; '''''dead''' slow''; '''''dead''' sure''; '''''dead''' simple''; '''''dead''' honest''; '''''dead''' accurate''; '''''dead''' easy''; '''''dead''' scared''; '''''dead''' solid''; '''''dead''' black''; '''''dead''' white''; '''''dead empty ;
- dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Noun
(dead)- The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead .
Synonyms
* (those who have died) the deceasedVerb
(en verb)- "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
- “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.