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deceased
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As an adjective, deceased means no longer alive. As a noun, it means a dead person.
Meanings of deceased
7 meaningsadjective
No longer alive; dead.
Belonging to the dead.
“The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.”
legalOne 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.
hyperbolicOverwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
“You look so good, I'm deceased!”
noun
A dead person.
“The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.”
“a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars”
legalOne 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.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).