Definition of "deceased" in English

adjective

1. No longer alive; dead.

2. Belonging to the dead.

   • The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.

3. (law) 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.

4. (hyperbolic) Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.

   • You look so good, I'm deceased!

noun

1. (euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).

   • The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
   • a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars

2. (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.