undead
- noun
- /ʌnˈdɛd/
- Literature
- After all, I had brought my children into a menagerie of the Undead.
Zombies, mummies, the undead pursuing them slowly but surely on the spongy earth.
- Zombies, mummies, the undead pursuing them slowly but surely on the spongy earth.
- Because it's the sexiest of the of the undead, right?
- Yes, but cats are of course, the the souls of the the evil undead.
- I personally don't and I just ghost is just a a dead human zombie, human undead.
Examples
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Initially, I thought Undead were disgusting, but now I think they look cool.
Blog text (6) -
I am the one the undead have been waiting for.
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...and keep the undead at bay.
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But then you realize it's an army of the undead, and the army turns out to be zombies.
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And what if all of those villains became part of the undead?
Fiction book (1996) -
His legion of the undead, his true children.
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The undead surround me.
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I can't get back because of the insane number of undead that swarm me there.
Blog text (29) -
Zombies, mummies, the undead pursuing them slowly but surely on the spongy earth.
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The villagers were terrified as they stumbled upon a horde of undead rising from their graves.
Synonyms
A dead body that comes back to life like a zombie
How Alive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Undead as a noun uses the same parts, un- 'not' and dead, and so it names a being that is 'not dead' in the usual sense. That's why an undead is a creature like a vampire or zombie — someone who died but is supernaturally alive again.