Synonyms for death
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Decease
decease formal, mortality, fatality, doom, expiration, dissolution, exit, passing, termination, cessation formal, departure, release, expiry UK AU NZ, quietus dated
2. Destruction
Other
fatal, casualty, last, fall, cross-bones, apotheosis, pale rider, liquidation
Definitions
- n. 1
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, non-living state.
My grandfather died/met a violent death, which saddened the whole family.
- n. 2
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, non-living state. Execution (in the judicial sense).
The serial killer was sentenced to death.
- n. 3
The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- deaths → deceases, mortalities, fatalities, dooms…
Example sentences
- mortality Strict abortion laws lead to higher maternal mortality.
- doom It seems to me that you only see doom and gloom.
- dissolution Tom and Mary announced the dissolution of their marriage.
- fatality Life has a 100% fatality rate.
- fatal Make the best of one's lot with fatal resignation.
- casualty She works in the hospital's casualty department.
By length
- 3 letters
- end1
- 4 letters
- last1, fall1, fate1, exit2, doom1
- 5 letters
- dying2, fatal2
- 6 letters
- demise2, expiry3
- 7 letters
- release2, passing2, decease2, quietus
- 8 letters
- casualty4, downfall2, fatality4
- 9 letters
- departure3, mortality4, cessation3
- 10 letters
- extinction3, expiration4, apotheosis5
- 11 letters
- destruction3, termination4, dissolution4, liquidation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exit2 = 2 syllables).