Need another word that means the same as “creature”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “creature” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Creature” are: puppet, tool, wight, animal, beast, brute, fauna, person, human being, human, being, mortal, soul, thing, fellow, individual, character, wretch, beggar, minion, lackey, flunkey, hireling, subordinate, servant, retainer, vassal
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “creature” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| animal | An animal as opposed to a human being. Those men have to be animals what they did to that boy was savage. |
| beast | A thing possessing a specified quality. Sex beasts who are assaulting victims. |
| beggar | A person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied. Poor little beggars. |
| being | Being alive living. Many factions remained in being. |
| brute | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. A great brute of a machine. |
| character | A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something. To what do I owe this attack on my character. |
| fauna | The animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. The flora and fauna of Siberia. |
| fellow | An informal form of address for a man. He was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association. |
| flunkey | A person of unquestioning obedience. |
| hireling | A person who works only for money. The poorly paid hirelings in their shabby clothes. |
| human | A human being. |
| human being | Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| individual | A human being. Boat trips for parties and individuals. |
| lackey | A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage. |
| minion | A servile or fawning dependant. He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off. |
| mortal | A human being subject to death, as opposed to a divine being. An ambassador had to live in a style which was not expected of lesser mortals. |
| person | A category used in the classification of pronouns possessive determiners and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker first person the addressee second person or a third party third person. A weapon was hidden on his person. |
| puppet | A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer. A former revolutionary hero who is now a puppet of the state. |
| retainer | A servant, especially one who has worked for a person or family for a long time. Faithful family retainers. |
| servant | A person employed in the service of a government. A government servant. |
| soul | The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. Brevity is the soul of wit. |
| subordinate | An assistant subject to the authority or control of another. He was mild mannered especially with his subordinates. |
| thing | Anything used for emphasis. He looks like he s wearing boxers underneath his trunks is that a thing. |
| tool | A distinct design in the tooling of a book. Computers are an essential tool. |
| vassal | A person or country in a subordinate position to another. A vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. |
| wight | A human being wight is an archaic term. He always was an unlucky wight. |
| wretch | Someone you feel sorry for. Can the poor wretch s corpse tell us anything. |
| abide | (of a feeling or memory) continue without fading or being lost. If there is one thing I cannot abide it is a lack of discipline. |
| alive | Continuing in existence or use. Doctors are working hard to keep him alive. |
| archaeopteryx | Extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds. |
| being | Being alive living. A point of view gradually coming into being. |
| biologically | With respect to biology. The world s most biologically diverse ecosystems. |
| brute | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. A great brute of a machine. |
| dweller | A person or animal that lives in or at a specified place. City dwellers. |
| existence | All that exists. The biggest tree in existence. |
| existential | Of or as conceived by existentialism. Formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters. |
| extant | Still in existence; surviving. Extant manuscripts. |
| fauna | All the animal life in a particular region or period. The flora and fauna of Siberia. |
| flagellate | A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals. He flagellated himself with branches. |
| fungus | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia. Fallen logs were overgrown with bright fungus. |
| genetically | By genetic mechanisms. Hair colour is genetically determined. |
| habitat | The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. A marine habitat. |
| humankind | Human beings considered collectively (used as a neutral alternative to ‘mankind. The origin of humankind. |
| incarnation | The form taken by a person or thing during an incarnation. In a previous journalistic incarnation I worked at Westminster. |
| inhabit | Be an inhabitant of or reside in. Strange notions inhabited her mind. |
| life | An account of the series of events making up a person s life. She didn t want to die she loved life. |
| lifelong | Lasting or remaining in a particular state throughout a person’s life. The two men were to remain lifelong friends. |
| living | Pertaining to living persons. What does he do for a living. |
| organism | The material structure of an organism. The Church is a divinely constituted organism. |
| outlive | Survive or last beyond (a specified period or expected lifespan. She outlived her husband by many years. |
| phylum | (linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related. |
| physiology | The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. The physiology of the brain. |
| presence | The act of being present. My presence in the flat made her happy. |
| protoplasm | The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus. |
| unicellular | (of an evolutionary or developmental stage) characterized by the formation or presence of a single cell or cells. The unicellular precursors of arms and legs. |
| vertebrate | Denoting a vertebrate or relating to the vertebrates as a group. |
| zoology | The branch of biology that studies animals. The zoology of the Pliocene epoch. |
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