The difference between Dead and Deceased

When used as nouns, dead means time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense, whereas deceased means a dead person.

When used as adjectives, dead means no longer living, whereas deceased means no longer alive, dead.


Dead is also adverb with the meaning: exactly.

Dead is also verb with the meaning: to prevent by disabling.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dead and Deceased

  1. Dead as an adjective (not comparable):

    No longer living.

    Examples:

    "All of my grandparents are dead."

  2. Dead as an adjective (hyperbole):

    Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

  3. Dead as an adjective (of another person):

    So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

    Examples:

    "He is dead to me."

  4. Dead as an adjective:

    Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).

    Examples:

    "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!"

  5. Dead as an adjective:

    Without emotion.

    Examples:

    "She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea."

  6. Dead as an adjective:

    Stationary; static.

    Examples:

    "the dead load on the floor"

    "a dead lift"

  7. Dead as an adjective:

    Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

    Examples:

    "'dead air"

    "a dead glass of soda."

  8. Dead as an adjective:

    Unproductive.

    Examples:

    "'dead time"

    "'dead fields"

  9. Dead as an adjective (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit):

    Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.

    Examples:

    "OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire."

    "Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs."

  10. Dead as an adjective (of a battery):

    Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.

  11. Dead as an adjective (not comparable):

    Broken or inoperable.

    Examples:

    "That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up."

  12. Dead as an adjective (not comparable):

    No longer used or required.

    Examples:

    "There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched."

    "Is this beer glass dead?"

  13. Dead as an adjective (engineering):

    Not imparting motion or power by design.

    Examples:

    "the dead spindle of a lathe"

    "A [[dead axle]], also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating."

  14. Dead as an adjective (not comparable, sports):

    Not in play.

    Examples:

    "Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead."

  15. Dead as an adjective (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball):

    Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

  16. Dead as an adjective (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s):

    Tagged out.

  17. Dead as an adjective (not comparable):

    Full and complete.

    Examples:

    "'dead stop"

    "'dead sleep"

    "'dead giveaway"

    "'dead silence"

  18. Dead as an adjective (not comparable):

    Exact.

    Examples:

    "'dead center"

    "'dead aim"

    "a dead eye"

    "a dead level"

  19. Dead as an adjective:

    Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

    Examples:

    "After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead."

  20. Dead as an adjective:

    Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

    Examples:

    "a dead floor"

  21. Dead as an adjective (obsolete):

    Bringing death; deadly.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  22. Dead as an adjective (legal):

    Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

    Examples:

    "A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead."

  1. Dead as an adverb (degree, informal, colloquial):

    Exactly.

    Examples:

    "dead right''; ''dead level''; ''dead flat''; ''dead straight''; ''dead left"

    "He hit the target dead in the centre."

  2. Dead as an adverb (degree, informal, colloquial):

    Very, absolutely, extremely.

    Examples:

    "dead wrong''; ''dead set''; ''dead serious''; ''dead drunk''; ''dead broke''; ''dead earnest''; ''dead certain''; ''dead slow''; ''dead sure''; ''dead simple''; ''dead honest''; ''dead accurate''; ''dead easy''; ''dead scared''; ''dead solid''; ''dead black''; ''dead white''; ''dead empty"

  3. Dead as an adverb:

    Suddenly and completely.

    Examples:

    "He stopped dead."

  4. Dead as an adverb (informal):

    As if dead.

    Examples:

    "dead tired''; ''dead quiet''; ''dead asleep''; ''dead pale''; ''dead cold''; ''dead still"

  1. Dead as a noun (uncountable, singulare tantum, often with "the"):

    Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

    Examples:

    "The dead of night.'' ''The dead of winter."

  2. Dead as a noun (plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive):

    Those who have died.

    Examples:

    "Have respect for the dead."

    "The villagers are mourning their dead."

    "The dead are always with us, in our hearts."

  1. Dead as a verb (transitive):

    To prevent by disabling; stop.

  2. Dead as a verb (transitive):

    To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.

  3. Dead as a verb (UK, transitive, slang):

    To kill.

  1. Deceased as an adjective:

    No longer alive, dead

  2. Deceased as an adjective:

    Belonging to the dead.

  3. Deceased as an adjective (legal):

    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.

  1. Deceased as a noun:

    A dead person.

    Examples:

    "The deceased was interred in his local churchyard."

    "a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars"

  2. Deceased as a noun (legal):

    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.