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Living vs Undead - What's the difference?

living | undead |

As adjectives the difference between living and undead

is that living is having life while undead is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

As nouns the difference between living and undead

is that living is the state of being alive while undead is those creatures which are dead yet still moving.

As a verb living

is present participle of lang=en.

living

English

(wikipedia living)

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having life.
  • * :
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
  • In use or existing.
    • Hunanese is a living language.
  • Of everyday life.
    • These living conditions are deplorable.
  • True to life.
    • This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
    • He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

    Antonyms

    * dead * nonliving

    Derived terms

    * living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living will

    Related terms

    * live, life * alive

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  • Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
    • What do you do for a living ?
  • A style of life.
    • plain living
  • (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.

    • Derived terms

    * make a living

    Statistics

    * English intensifiers

    undead

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Noun

    (wikipedia undead) (en-noun)
  • 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, 1897-1997
    • Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads , an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

    See also

    * zombie * vampire * mummy * living dead * Frankenstein * Frankenstein's monster