Deceased vs Extinct - What's the difference?
deceased | extinct | Related terms |
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.
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
Deceased is a related term of extinct.
As adjectives the difference between deceased and extinct
is that deceased is no longer alive while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a noun deceased
is a dead person.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.extinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .