Definition of ZOMBIE

zombie

Meanings

Plural: zombies

Noun

  • a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
  • a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
  • someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
  • several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
  • A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
  • An apathetic or slow-witted person.
  • A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
  • Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
  • An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
  • 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.
  • A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
  • A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
  • A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
  • Marijuana, or similar drugs.
  • A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Origin / Etymology

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi, Sranan Tongo dyumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

Synonyms

automaton, benj, bhang, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, deadhead, devil's lettuce, djamba, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganj, ganja, ghoul, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, intellectual prostitute, living dead, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Jane, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, MJ, muggle, mull, p-zombie, philosophical zombie, pot, puff, reefer, sensimilla, sensimillia, shit, snake god, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, walker, walking dead, weed, yarndie, zaza, zed, zombi, zombi spirit, zombie, zombie spirit

Scrabble Score: 19

zombie is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
zombie is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
zombie is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

zombie is a valid Words With Friends word