undead

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʌnˈdɛd/

Adjective

undead (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
2. (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.

Translations

• French: mort-vivant
• German: untot
• Portuguese: morto-vivo
• Spanish: no-muerto, zombi

Noun

1. (horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate.

   In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.

Translations

• French: mort-vivant
• German: Untoten
• Italian: non morto, morto vivente
• Portuguese: morto-vivo
• Russian: не́жить
• Spanish: no-muerto, muerto viviente

Noun

undead (plural undeads)

1. (horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
   • 1983, Tanith Lee}, The Wars of Vis ↗

     "You will do me a service," the undead said to him.

   • 1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997

     Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

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