zombyish

English

From zombie +‎ -ish.

zombyish (comparative more zombyish, superlative most zombyish)

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,^[1]
  […] 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.