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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He’s turned a Power 4 coaching graveyard into a garden, risen a zombie football program back from the dead in a blink. —

Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2024 For now, the risk of zombie deer disease jumping to humans is hypothetical. —

Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024 Another memorable part of the film is a gory zombie animation sequence courtesy of Elliott-Knowles. —

Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024 Other options include a display while driving that shows pedestrians as zombies, and bicyclists and motorcyclists as headless horsemen. —

Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for zombie