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Undead vs Unliving - What's the difference?

undead | unliving |

As adjectives the difference between undead and unliving

is that undead is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life while unliving is not living; unalive, dead, inanimate.

As a noun undead

is those creatures which are dead yet still moving.

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

    unliving

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not living; unalive, dead, inanimate.