Zombie

Quick meaning: Zombie is a noun meaning (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.

Meaning

(figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
2. (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
3. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
4. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
5. (voodoo) 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.
6. (horror) 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.
7. (computing) 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.

Example Sentences

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

The zombies were having fun The party had just begun The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.

Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though. Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?

Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.

Word Forms

• zombies
• zombi
• zomby

Synonyms for zombie

Depending on context, synonyms include deadhead, walker, zed, bhang, benj, boo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zombi, automaton, ghoul, walker, grab, deadness.

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