the deceased

noun

formal

: a dead person or dead people

a relative of the deceased

Three of the deceased are being buried today.

Examples of the deceased in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease, also denied reports of a second case of illness linked to the deceased worker following speculation in a small number of Western media outlets. — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

The rite symbolizes the deceased's final departure from the world of the living and helps the family come to terms with the loss. — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

Before the speaker’s podium stood a vase filled with white roses; to the right, a large photograph of the deceased. — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the deceased

• beast
• ceased
• creased
• east
• feast
• fleeced
• geest
• greased
• leased
• least
• pieced
• priest