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un-dead

un-dead is the alternative form of undead.

Meaning of undead

Adjective

undead (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Not dead; alive.
  2. Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
  3. (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.
    • 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.2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2019

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Questions about un-dead

What is un-dead the alternative form of?
Un-dead is the alternative form of undead.

Words near un-dead in the dictionary

  1. un-circed
  2. un-co-ordinatedly
  3. un-come-at-able
  4. un-credit card
  5. un-credit cards
  6. un-dead
  7. un-deadstock
  8. un-deadstocked
  9. un-deadstocking
  10. un-deadstocks
  11. un-die

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