Halfdead vs Undead - What's the difference?
halfdead | undead |
Halfway dead; partially alive.
*1999 , Patti Massman, Susan Rosser, A Matter of Betrayal :
*2009 , Kristin Cashore, Fire :
*2010 , Wayne Gordon, Who Is My Neighbor? :
In a half-dead or partially alive manner.
*2010 , Robert A Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice :
Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
(horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.
Those creatures which are dead yet still moving.
* 1997 , Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997
As adjectives the difference between halfdead and undead
is that halfdead is halfway dead; partially alive while undead is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.As an adverb halfdead
is in a half-dead or partially alive manner.As a noun undead is
those creatures which are dead yet still moving.halfdead
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(-)- But even after he was beyond the danger zone, he still felt halfdead .
- Until the day King Nax had seized him and shattered his legs—not broken them, but shattered them, eight men taking turns with a mallet—and then sent him home, halfdead , to his wife, Aliss, in the northern Dells.
- Some may be halfdead' physically; they need people to visit them in the hospital or in their homes. But there are many more who are ' halfdead in other ways.
Adverb
(-)- [...] from a vantage point of security, the lawyer is taught to ask the question from the vantage point of one lying halfdead by the side of the road.
undead
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Adjective
(-)Noun
(wikipedia undead) (en-noun)- In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.
- Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads , an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
