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Unread vs Undead - What's the difference?

unread | undead |

As nouns the difference between unread and undead

is that unread is bad advice or counsel while undead is those creatures which are dead yet still moving.

As adjectives the difference between unread and undead

is that unread is not having been read while undead is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

unread

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) unred, .

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Bad advice or counsel.
  • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having been read.
  • The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
  • Not having read; uneducated.
  • Anagrams

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    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