View synonyms for undead

undead

[ uhn-ded ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, (used with a plural verb)

undead

/ ʌnˈdɛd /

1. (of a fictional being, such as a vampire) technically dead but reanimated
2. ( as collective noun; preceded by the )
  the undead

Origin of undead¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; un- ¹( def ) + dead ( def )

Meanwhile, Only Lovers Left Alive uses the city as a character as undead and ghostly as its human leads.

With a force as essentially repetitive as the undead, changing locations (and plots) gives the show life.

While Maggie, Daryl, Sasha and the others frantically chip away at the undead swarm, Rick hesitates.

His centuries-old lover, Eve (Tilda Swinton), lives out in Tangiers, and has a more positive outlook on the undead life.

For the most part, undead Canadians reject the violent methods of the more militant zombies.

Give them outsized, bat-adorned tools and get them to play at construction activity in thumpy, undead pantomime.

They seemed to watch her with the awful patience of the undead.

If those undead things materialized while he lay among them!

If I followed those undead things, they might capture me, but it seemed worse to stay there in that dreadful dark.

Usually some of our captives live from full moon to full moon before they become like those of the galley—the undead.

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