Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not subject to death; immortal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Not subject to death; immortal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.
  • adjective Not subject to death; immortal.
  • adjective Unable to be killed, quenched, or terminated; eternal; everlasting.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the undead.
  • adverb Immortally; eternally.

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ deadly.

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From Middle English undeedlii, vndeedly, undedlich, from Old English undēadlīc ("immortal, for all eternity"), equivalent to undead +‎ -ly.

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