late lamented
Mourned and gone
Late lamented describes someone who has died and is mourned or missed.
The phrase is somewhat formal and often appears in obituaries or memorial contexts: the late lamented founder of our organization.
It can also be used with gentle irony about things that no longer exist: the late lamented corner bookshop.
- deceasedNo longer living
- departedHaving left
- expiredNo longer in effect
- perishedCeased living violently
- lostUnable to navigate
posthumous · memorial · tribute · eulogy · requiem · elegy · gone · mourning · obituary · epitaph · mortal · commemoration · defunct · demised · decedent · bereaved · extinct · grief-stricken
late lamentedalive and well
Existing and healthy
still with us · living · surviving · the quick · extant
late lamentedunlamented
Not grieved over
unmourned · unremembered · forgotten · good riddance · unmissed
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