Synonyms for zombie
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Walking dead — A dead person, reanimated through some fictional agency as a fungus, virus, or the like, that has an…
walking dead, walker, zed slang IE, deadhead slang
2. Philosophical zombie — A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious…
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
- n. 2
A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
Related words
- Word family
- zombiesque zombocalypse zomedy zompire
- Phrases
- zombie box zombie apocalypse zombie business zombie computer zombie fire zombie institution zombie software philosophical zombie
- Other spellings
- zombi
Forms
- Plural
- zombies → walkers, zeds, deadheads, p-zombies…
Example sentences
- walker I'm so sorry that Paul Walker died in a car crash.
- automaton Lily handled it with the preciseness of an automaton.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| zombie | rising | |
| walker | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- zed1
- 6 letters
- walker2
- 8 letters
- deadhead2
- 9 letters
- automaton4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (walker2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- zombi