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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—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
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—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The Rockies have been a zombie baseball club for five years now, moaning and trudging along the National League cellar, wandering the darkness, looking for brains to eat.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Other credits include Netflix’s Time to Hunt, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2020, and Amazon’s post-apocalyptic zombie fantasy romance Newtopia, starring Blackpink’s Jisoo and Park Jung-min (Hellbound).
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 May 2025
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
The animation director adds the inversion of the zombie genre for Bread Will Walk, where two young people are on the run from a comedic, starving mob, aims beyond engaging audiences to leave them pondering the impact of hunger itself in a world increasingly filled by the haves and have-nots.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The Rockies have been a zombie baseball club for five years now, moaning and trudging along the National League cellar, wandering the darkness, looking for brains to eat.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Other credits include Netflix’s Time to Hunt, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2020, and Amazon’s post-apocalyptic zombie fantasy romance Newtopia, starring Blackpink’s Jisoo and Park Jung-min (Hellbound).
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 May 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zombie. Accessed 18 May. 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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