zombyish

English

Etymology

From zombie +‎ -ish.

Adjective

zombyish (comparative more zombyish, superlative most zombyish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
    • 1963 [1962], Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, part 3, pages 159–160:
      What a superb device he can be, this boy. If anything, of course, he could for preference look even iller and more zombyish than he does. Anything for the cause.
    • 1972, Bruce Chatwin, letter to James Ivory dated March 1972, in Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (editors) Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, New York: Viking, 2011, p. 211,
      […] I just caught them in Paris on my way back from Dahomey. Seemed in very good form. They were with that zombyish creature called David Becker.
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