zombie-esquehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zombie-esque_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezombie-esque, adj.
Revised 2021

zombie-esqueadjective

  1. 1946–
    Resembling or suggestive of a zombie; zombie-like.
    1. 1946
      Other endings are found in barterable, fissionable, and unenlightenable;..in zombiesque;..and in hysteroid and survivaloid.
      Saturday Review of Literature (U.S.) 29 June 41/2
    2. 1948
      The mechanical style, which began in the counting-house, has now infiltrated into the university, some of its most zombiesque instances occurring in the works of eminent scholars and divines.
      R. Graves, White Goddess xiii. 203
    3. 1972
      Ponderax..sidetracks the appetite but leaves the character..muted, zombiesque.
      Vogue January 7/3
    4. 2020
      We're all a bit zombie-esque, pandemic refugees, if—yeah-yeah—in this together.
      Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 August a2

Originally published as part of the entry for zombie, n.

zombie-esque, adj. was revised in September 2021.

zombie-esque, adj. was last modified in July 2023.