Undead

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›d

Origin

- + dead

Full definition of undead

Adjective

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

Noun

1. (usually preceded by "the") Those creatures which are dead yet still moving.In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.
• 1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.