zombic
English
Etymology
Adjective
zombic (comparative more zombic, superlative most zombic)
- relating to zombies
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- 2010 November 9, Martin Bojowald, Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe[1], Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QB981.B684 2010:
- The atoms are in a superposition of both possibilities, and the poor cat, too, is hanging on in a zombic combination of life and death.
- resembling a zombie
- 1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale, page 111:
- As fortune and custom's use would have it, few were the witnesses to my zombic march, and none to see this gaunt-eyed ghost slip inside his Pilot's cabin, though not through any worldly care of mine.
- 2007 November 6, Adam Gopnik, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York[2], Random House, →ISBN:
- She explained to me instantly that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even “zombic” ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by having pets.
- 2008 May 1, Gary Buslik, A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace It's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen, Palo Alto: Travelers' Tales, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC F2171.3.B87 2008, page 2:
- I've always thought it more sensible than the zombic passivity we associate with Caucasian moviegoing—not unlike the difference between a staid Presbyterian church service and a rip-roaring Baptist get-down.