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zombyish

zombyish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a zombie.

Adjective

zombyish (comparative more zombyish, superlative most zombyish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
    • 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.1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, part 3, pages 159–160
    • […] 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.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

Forms of zombyish

comparativemore zombyish
superlativemost zombyish

Origin of zombyish

From zombie + -ish.

Questions about zombyish

What does zombyish mean?
Zombyish means resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
What part of speech is zombyish?
Zombyish is an adjective.

Words near zombyish in the dictionary

  1. zomboruk
  2. zomboruks
  3. zombs
  4. zomby
  5. zombying out
  6. zombyish
  7. zombyism
  8. zomdu
  9. zomdus
  10. zome
  11. zomebazam

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