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# Pertaining to a [[corpse]], though having qualities of [[life]]. |
# Pertaining to a [[corpse]], though having qualities of [[life]]. |
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# {{lb|en|[[horror]] [[fiction]]}} Being [[animate]], though non-living. |
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#* {{quote-web|en|author=April Wolfe|title=''[[w:Anna and the Apocalypse|Anna And The Apocalypse]]'' is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104041033/https://www.avclub.com/anna-and-the-apocalypse-is-a-holiday-horror-cocktail-of-1830660900|archivedate=4 November 2019|work={{w|The A.V. Club}}|date=27 November 2018|passage=When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an '''undead''' neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.}} |
#* {{quote-web|en|author=April Wolfe|title=''[[w:Anna and the Apocalypse|Anna And The Apocalypse]]'' is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104041033/https://www.avclub.com/anna-and-the-apocalypse-is-a-holiday-horror-cocktail-of-1830660900|archivedate=4 November 2019|work={{w|The A.V. Club}}|date=27 November 2018|passage=When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an '''undead''' neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.}} |
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Revision as of 04:09, 20 August 2020
English
Etymology
From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. Usage as a noun is attested from the early 20th century onwards.
Pronunciation
Adjective
undead (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
- (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.
- 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2019:
- When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
Translations
being animate, though non-living
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Translations to be checked
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Noun
- (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.
- 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
- It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.
Translations
those creatures which are dead but still animate
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Noun
undead (plural undeads)
- (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.
- 1983, Tanith Lee}, The Wars of Vis
See also
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms prefixed with un-
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɛd
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- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
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- en:Afterlife
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