undead

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Not dead; alive.
2. (not-comparable)Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
3. (not-comparable)Being animate, though non-living.

   “When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.”

noun

1. A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.

   “In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.”

   “"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.”

   “Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.”

   “"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."”

   “Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom”