# unalive
## English
### Etymology

From un- +‎ alive. Internet usage originates from circumventing systems that were believed to censor or sanction the words related to death, especially "die", "kill", and "suicide".

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʌn.əlaɪv/
* (General American) IPA: /ʌn.əlaɪ̯v/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

unalive (comparative more unalive, superlative most unalive)
* Not alive; dead or inanimate.
    Near-synonym: nonlive
** 1927, Olive Higgins Prouty, Conflict: A Novel, page 69:John Sheldon laid down Sheilah ' s hand beside her on the bed , as if it had been a book , or something unalive, and took out of his bag near by an accessory that was almost as much a part of him as his glasses.
** 1964, Eric Fromm, The Heart of Man, page 55:Often her anxiety will contribute toward making the child afraid of life and attracted to that which is unalive.
** 1988, Richard Rossner, The Whole Story, page 14:She was amazed that he wasn't changed , that he wasn't hurt , or perhaps utterly unalive , murdered .
** 2000, Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love, page 106:I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle. But they are stubbornly unalive and therefore unwilting.
** 2012, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Heidegger: An Introduction, page 104: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).
* Lacking vivacity and liveliness; dull or sterile.
** 1929, American Association of University Women, AAUW Journal - Volumes 23-25, page 106:Rebecca despises her professors because they cannot think as clearly as she can, cannot argue as well as she can, and are tired and dowdy and unalive.
** 1936, Clement Wood, The Glory Road: An Autobiography, page 78:The silent city asleep at our back , joyless and unalive.
** 1944, International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone Research, page 186:No, medicine is not an art , it is a science, but a mechanistic, unalive one.
** 1977, Psychotherapy & Social Science Review - Volume 11, page 4:No amount of psychoanalytic interpretation will have an effect if the therapeutic atmosphere is heavy , unalive, and boring .
** 1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171:SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . . I found ( SLS ) hollow , unproductive , unalive , and above all stagy: not cinematic.
** 2008, The Middle Way - Volumes 83-84, page 145: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.
* Lacking energy and feeling; passionless; mechanical.
** 1953, Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Personal, page 213:Rather be unhappy , and know it , than unalive, and not know it .
** 1974, William R.Parker, Elaine St. Johus, Prayer Can Change Your Life, page 229:But now these symptoms which seemed to be bad and inimical , namely , this anxiety or guilt , prove themselves to be helpful and friendly, for they intrude themselves in order to bring healing by awakening this living yet unalive person.
** 1975, Clark E. Moustakas, The Touch of Loneliness, page 39:If I feel placid or unalive must I feign excitement?
** 1977, Michael D. Marcaccio, The Hapgoods Three Earnest Brothers, page 157:She made him look impetuous, excitable; he made her seem cold, unalive.
** 1978, Alvin R. Mahrer, Experiencing: A Humanistic Theory of Psychology and Psychiatry, page 268:Fromm ( 1968 ) refers to this as the spectre of a mechanized society in which human beings are slowly being transformed into the mechanical thing which is the society - passive, automatic, unfeeling, run by computers, unalive, a product of conditioning.
* Lacking a fulfilling life; meaningless.
** 1966, Lois G. Gordon, Dialectic of the Beast and Monk, page 287:In one rather poignant moment she reveals this predicament with her husband : if she has emasculated him throughout the years , Willie , in his own passive way , has made her feel similarly unalive: Was I ever lovable ?
** 2008, William Saroyan, William E. Justice, He Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease, page 28:And for the past six months I have been separated from my writing, and I have been nothing, or I have been walking about unalive, some indistinct shadow in a nightmare of the universe.
** 2009, Carole Jones, Disappearing Men:, page 34: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".
* (often with "to") Lacking consciousness; unresponsive, indifferent or oblivious.
** 1930, Sir Mirza M. Ismail, Speeches - Volume 1, page 128:We are not unalive to the gravity of the problem of unemployment but we want co-operation here also, and we believe that , if we receive it , hundreds of young men who are now swelling the ranks of the unemployed , may achieve self-support in a happy, healthy and independent life.
** 1933, Thomas Earle Welby, Second Impressions, page 74:The realism was largely mere recoil , by a man unalive to how beer and a ribald joke can carry the common man through bibulation ; but the hunger of the mind was a very positive thing, active in him and in many of his most remarkable characters.
** 1950, Roy Chapman Andrews, My Favorite Stories of the Great Outdoors, page 314:Next day Tappan was not unalive to the changing character of the forest.
** 1977, Stuart Holroyd, Psi and the Consciousness Explosion, page 204:If ... the universe is unalive and indifferent , I will hope and work for something in myself quite different from what I will seek if the universe is laden with mind and life .
** 1981, Stanley Keleman, Your Body Speaks Its Mind, page 29:How unalive we are, how unincarnated we are, reveals itself as unresponsiveness, ungracefulness, and restricted bodily mobility.

#### Derived terms

* unaliveness

### Noun

unalive (plural unalives)
* One who is unalive.
** 1967, Helen Bevington, “Speaking of Books: Hellgazers and Rejoicers”, in The New York Times Book Review, volume 72, page 2:Most people are the unalives the notalives, the impersons, existing in an unworld of unlove and unbeing.
** 2009, Jirí Flajšar, Zénó Vernyik, Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders, page 83:The very latest of Mr. Cummings's new poems are fixed in rigid attitudes of youth, which now seem to show signs of weariness, caused by the strain of a prolonged defiance against "the sweet&aged people who rule this world," against the “unhearts,” the “unminds,” the “unalives."

### Verb

unalive (third-person singular simple present unalives, present participle unaliving, simple past and past participle unalived) (chiefly Internet slang, euphemistic)
* (transitive, nonstandard or euphemistic) To make unalive; to kill, especially oneself; to commit suicide.
    Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have unalived himself, but Tucker Carlson calls this position into question.
** 2017, Nicolas Michaud, Jacob Thomas May, Deadpool and Philosophy: My Common Sense Is Tingling:He “unalives” bad guys, sometimes for free, and this gives him a sense of purpose, even in an absurd world.
** 2017, Margaret Newmeli, Another Dimension: The Ultimate Amalgam, page 160:Or does anyone know how to stop Broly without unaliving him?
** 2019, Aman K Singh, The Deserters: The Curse Bearer, page 237:"We are going to 'unalive' them once again,” said Yukt laughing and the men looked at him like he was crazy.
** 2021 May 18, Katie Storey, “Woman mortified after her old school teacher follows her on OnlyFans… and says she was always ‘something special’”, in The Sun:Sharing just how awkward she felt, Rara, who also has her own YouTube channel, joked she wanted to "unalive" herself.
** 2024 December 9, Colin O'Donnell, “Episode 6497” (0:09:32 from the start), in Hollyoaks‎, spoken by Freddie Roscoe (Charlie Clapham), Channel 4:Bro, I was sticking up for you. You better top your coolant up or you're gonna unalive your engine.
* (intransitive, nonstandard or euphemistic) To die.
** 2020, F. H. Fischer, The Second Daughter's Darkness, page 90:Carl sighs, and ironically wishes to unalive out loud.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* unvaile