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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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
The American frontier was a brutal place, but no more brutal than a zombie apocalypse.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
But those are both zombie models that have been discontinued for years—the i3 since 2021, the 6 Series GT since 2019—whereas the XM is a model that is currently in production.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2025
Dead Light, Green Light is a twist on the iconic game including zombies.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for zombie
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zombie. Accessed 20 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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