passed away

ADJECTIVE

dead

Synonyms

STRONGEST

buried deceased late lifeless unalive

STRONG

cold departed stiff

WEAK

asleep bereft of life bloodless bought the farm breathless cadaverous checked out cut off defunct done for erased expired extinct gone gone to meet maker gone to reward liquidated no more not existing offed out of one's misery perished pushing up daisies reposing resting in peace

Antonyms

STRONGEST

alive living

WEAK

continuing enduring existent existing live undead warm

ADJECTIVE

departed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deceased

STRONG

buried expired gone stiff

WEAK

bought the farm in the grave laid to rest late pushing up daisies six feet under

ADJECTIVE

nonexistent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absent negative tenuous vacant

WEAK

airy baseless blank chimerical dead defunct departed dreamlike dreamy empty ethereal extinct extinguished fancied few and far between flimsy gone gossamery groundless hallucinatory hypothetical illusory imaginary imagined immaterial imponderable insubstantial legendary lost missing mythical null null and void passed on perished shadowy ungrounded unreal unsubstantial vague vaporous void without foundation

Antonyms

WEAK

actual existent existing real true

Example Sentences

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“Pienso En Ti” also carries extra emotional weight as the last track Díaz got to work on with Mexican artist and producer Milkman, who passed away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

My mother passed away and I am the beneficiary on her checking account.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

AFP contacted the Guinness World Records to find out if Lazare had held the record before he passed away on Thursday, but did not receive an immediate response.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

His mother Helen passed away last month, with Anderson laying a wreath on the pitch before Forest's victory against Burnley in April.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

When she passed away, Mama and Doc went through her things, deciding what to keep, what to place on her grave, and what to give away.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

passed away

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