Dead
Dead adjective - No longer existing.
Usage example: the dead Babylonian culture
Existing is an antonym for dead in topics: deceased, complete, indifferent, not working, no longer alive.
Nearby Word: deadly
Existing
Existing adjective - Having being at the present time.
Usage example: existing breeds of the turkey that graces our Thanksgiving table are said to bear little resemblance to the gamy birds that the Pilgrims enjoyed
Both words in one sentence
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Her character, Georgia Madchen, last name translates roughly to "Lass", and she has Cotard's syndrome, believing she is dead but still existing in some form, like Georgia Lass in Dead Like Me.
Source: Series / Hannibal -
Parental Substitute: Shakes' boss, which makes Shakes all the more upset to wake up from being passed out cold to find him dead and the possibility existing that Shakes did it.
Source: Film / Shakes the Clown -
The ending of Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen is similar to Closing Time mentioned above, as the world gets nuke-washed and all the humans are dead, the Gremlins move to the surface but found out when there's no human alive, there is no imagination to keep them existing.
Source: Everybody's Dead, Dave
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