deader
adjective
1. (figuratively, humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.
- He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
noun
1. (figurative or humorous, informal) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
- I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.