variants
or less commonly zombi
1
a
: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated
b
: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body
2
a
: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead
especially
: automaton
b
: a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior
3
: a mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice
zombielike
adjective
or zombie-like
… a morning rush of zombielike office workers, all starved for caffeine and clamoring for cappuccino.
—
Bob Filipczak
Bob Filipczak
zomboid
adjective
This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love.
—Patrick McGarth
Patrick McGarth
Examples of zombie in a Sentence
If I don't go to bed early I'll be a zombie tomorrow.
His students usually sat there in the classroom like zombies.
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This film is almost like a prologue to a zombie movie — showing the world collapsing around the protagonist before the apocalypse begins.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
On Tuesday morning, however, Apple and Google’s app stores remain bereft of TikTok, leaving the app in a bit of a zombie existence.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
Set in Nebraska 10 years after the zombie apocalypse, the series chronicles the lives of teenagers who are the first generation to come of age in a post-apocalyptic era.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Since then, both Charter and Comcast have relentlessly restructured carriage deals, dropping of some zombie channels, moderating fee hikes, and getting the right to include subscription streaming services from these same media companies.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ben Croll, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
On Tuesday morning, however, Apple and Google’s app stores remain bereft of TikTok, leaving the app in a bit of a zombie existence.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
Set in Nebraska 10 years after the zombie apocalypse, the series chronicles the lives of teenagers who are the first generation to come of age in a post-apocalyptic era.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Since then, both Charter and Comcast have relentlessly restructured carriage deals, dropping of some zombie channels, moderating fee hikes, and getting the right to include subscription streaming services from these same media companies.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zombie. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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zombie
noun
zom·bie
variants
also zombi
: a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will
Etymology
Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin
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