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Unalive (adj) means not living; dead or without life.

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Not living; dead or without life.

"We don't experience a corpse as just an object; we experience it as an object that was once alive, but which no longer is. We experience it as "unalive" (Bt, 282)." — J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Heidegger: An Introduction (2012)

Dull and without energy or liveliness.

"Our perception labels it as negative, just like our minds have been trained to accept only the clinical and unreal, the sterile and unalive, the prepackaged and filtered." — The Middle Way - Volumes 83-84 (2008)

Showing no energy or emotion, as if acting like a machine.

Without purpose or meaning in life.

"It is directly related, however, to being and non-being, a relation which suggests that being is defined by work if without a job one becomes "unalive"." — Carole Jones, Disappearing Men (2009)

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C2 · Advanced serendipity Fortunate discoveries made entirely by accident.

Gen Z slang rizz Charm — the ability to attract a romantic interest.

B2 · Intermediate empathy The capacity to share another person’s feelings.

C1 · Advanced nonchalant Casually calm and relaxed; unconcerned.

Internet slang delulu Delusional — believing something against the odds.

Etymology nostalgia Greek nostos “return home” + algos “pain”.

C2 · Advanced serendipity Fortunate discoveries made entirely by accident.

Gen Z slang rizz Charm — the ability to attract a romantic interest.

B2 · Intermediate empathy The capacity to share another person’s feelings.

C1 · Advanced nonchalant Casually calm and relaxed; unconcerned.

Internet slang delulu Delusional — believing something against the odds.

Etymology nostalgia Greek nostos “return home” + algos “pain”.

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Etymology

From un- + alive. Internet usage originates from circumventing social media algorithms that were believed to penalise the use of the words related to death, especially “die”, “kill”, and “suicide”. According to linguist Adam Aleksic, the word in the verb sense of “die, kill” first appeared in a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, exploding in usage after a few viral videos in early 2021 popularized it. Since early 2022, unalive has become very widespread even outside Internet usage contexts, especially among adolescents. Aleksic argues that the word unalive has gained so much popularity because of a time-invariant tendency to refer to death by euphemism; compare the word die’s displacement of swelt, or the use of pass away.

Antonyms

animate

Related words

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Rhymes for unalive

five give dive live olive drive alive dative endive strive derive active

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Frequently asked questions

What is the meaning of unalive?

"unalive" (adj) means not living; dead or without life.

What is the opposite of unalive?

The opposite of "unalive" is animate.

What are the different meanings of unalive?

"unalive" has 3 main meanings: 1. Not living; dead or without life; 2. Dull and without energy or liveliness; 3. Showing no energy or emotion, as if acting like a machine.

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