Meaning

14 senses
  1. A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful.

    Zombie

    зо́мбиzómbi

    зо́мбіzómbi

  2. A dead person, reanimated through some fictional agency as a fungus, virus, or the like, that has an insatiable desire to eat living humans, typically depicted as aggressive, fast moving, and infectious.

  3. (figuratively)An apathetic or slow-witted person.

  4. (figuratively)A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

    After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

  5. (figuratively)Someone or something that should be dead but is not.

  6. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

  7. A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

  8. A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

  9. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

    several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

  10. (Canada, derogatory, historical)A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.

    1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov., Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?

  11. (Australia, slang)Marijuana, or similar drugs.

  12. A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Examples

196 sentences
  1. Tom looks like a zombie.

    Том схожий на зомбі.

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  2. What do you know about zombies?

    ruЧто ты знаешь о зомби?

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  3. Tom was acting like a zombie.

    ruТом вёл себя как зомби.

    deTom benahm sich wie ein Zombie.

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  4. Tom loves zombie movies and watches them whenever he can.

    deTom liebt Zombiefilme und sieht sich, wann immer möglich, welche an.

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  5. Tom was scared of the zombies.

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Translations

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Origin

First attested in the 18th century. Partially through Louisiana Creole zombi (“zombie; gho

First attested in the 18th century. Partially through Louisiana Creole zombi (“zombie; ghost”), Haitian Creole zonbi (“zombie”), and French zombi (“zombie”). Ultimately from a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi, Sranan Tongo dyumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbie (“a spirit or demon”).

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Forms

plural: zombies

Synonyms

66 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur:zombi
  • a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force:zombiliving dead
  • a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies:zombisnake god
  • (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body:zombizombi spiritzombie spirit
  • someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way:automatonzombi

Word family

82 related words

See also

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