Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zombyish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zom-by-ish
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.

Example Sentences

"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, […] 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."

Etymology

From zombie + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: zombie

Inflected Forms

more zombyish (comparative) most zombyish (superlative)

Questions

What does zombyish mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
Where does zombyish come from?: From zombie + -ish.

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