living dead

English

Noun

living dead pl (plural only)

1. (fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.

Translations

undead

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活死人 (zh) (huósǐrén)

• Dutch: ondode (nl) m, levende dode m, zombie (nl) m
• French: morts-vivants (fr) m pl, zombis (fr) m pl
• German: lebende Tote
• Polish: żywe trupy m pl
• Portuguese: morto-vivo m
• Spanish: muertos vivientes m pl, zombis m pl
• Swedish: levande död (sv) c, vandöd (sv), odöd (sv)

Adjective

living dead (not comparable)

1. Existing in stasis, without meaningful activity or development.
   • 2012, Gar Smith, Nuclear Roulette:

     This “living dead” industry has been written off time and time again, yet it continues to clamber back to its feet and lumber blindly onward.

   • 2014, J. Chris Leach, Ronald W. Melicher, Entrepreneurial Finance, page 423:

     Venture's investment in Black Hawk could turn out to be a complete failure (black hole), barely surviving (living dead), or wildly successful (venture utopia).