de·ceased

de·ceased
adj
: no longer living

Both his parents are deceased. [=dead]

his deceased aunt

usage
Dead and deceased both mean “no longer living,” but deceased is a gentler term, and people often use it when the person who died was close to them or when they are talking to someone who knew the person who died.

My mother is deceased.

Is your grandfather alive or deceased?

formal : a dead person or dead people

a relative of the deceased

Three of the deceased are being buried today.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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