Definition of "deader" in English

adjective

1. (figuratively, colloquial, chiefly humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.

   • He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.

noun

1. (colloquial, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

   • I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.