living dead

1. 1.

   a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force

   Synonymszombizombie

   Broaderdead person

Questions about living dead

What does living dead mean?

living dead means "a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force".

What is another word for living dead?

Close synonyms include zombi, zombie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is living dead a common word?

living dead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.