zombie

noun

zom·bie ˈzäm-bē

variants or less commonly zombi

: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated

: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body

: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead

especially : automaton

: a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior

: a mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice

zombielike adjective

or zombie-like

ˈzäm-bē-ˌlīk

… a morning rush of zombielike office workers, all starved for caffeine and clamoring for cappuccino. —

Bob Filipczak

zomboid

ˈzäm-ˌbȯid

adjective

This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love. —

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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The Escape From Tarkov Halloween event is still ongoing, with zombies still infesting the world and players being tasked to look for a solution. —

Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024 The filmmakers say these inmates are way more capable killers than zombies. —

Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024 Until manufacturers use safer flame-retardant compounds and laws effectively prohibit recycled electronics material from entering consumer products, these chemicals will continue circulating through our kitchens, arising and re-arising like toxic zombies. —

Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024 Animals taken over by zombies no longer control their own bodies or behaviors. —

Matt Kasson, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for zombie