English

Adjective

undead ‎(not comparable)

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

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Noun

undead pl ‎(plural only)

1. (with "the") Those creatures which are dead yet still moving.

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

undead ‎(plural undeads)

1. The creature which is dead yet still moving.
   • 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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See also

• zombie
• vampire
• mummy
• living dead
• Frankenstein
• Frankenstein's monster