CREEPY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CREEPY?

Need another word that means the same as “creepy”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “creepy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Creepy” are: creepy-crawly, frightening, terrifying, hair-raising, chilling, petrifying, alarming, shocking, harrowing, horrifying, horrific, horrible, awful, nightmarish, macabre, ghostly

Creepy as an Adjective

Definitions of "Creepy" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “creepy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.
• Annoying and unpleasant.
• Causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.

Synonyms of "Creepy" as an adjective (16 Words)

alarming	Worrying or disturbing. Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate.
awful	Extremely shocking; horrific. An awful voice.
chilling	Provoking fear terror. A chilling account of the prisoners fate.
creepy-crawly	Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.
frightening	Making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying. A frightening experience.
ghostly	Of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural. A ghostly face at the window.
hair-raising	Extremely alarming.
harrowing	Extremely painful. A harrowing film about racism and violence.
horrible	Provoking horror. War is beyond all words horrible.
horrific	Causing fear or dread or terror. Horrific injuries.
horrifying	Causing horror; extremely shocking. An alarming even horrifying picture.
macabre	Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death. Macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages.
nightmarish	Extremely alarming. A nightmarish vision of the future.
petrifying	Paralyzing with terror.
shocking	Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism. Shocking behaviour.
terrifying	Causing extreme terror. The terrifying events of the past few weeks.

Usage Examples of "Creepy" as an adjective

• The creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house.
• Some creepy kids were bothering her.
• A creepy story.
• I had a creepy-crawly feeling.

Associations of "Creepy" (30 Words)

apology	A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly. We owe you an apology.
boggle	Cause (a person or their mind) to be astonished. The inflated salary of a star boggles the mind.
cower	Crouch or curl up. Children cowered in terror as the shoot out erupted.
crawl	Feel as if crawling with insects. I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end.
cringe	Show submission or fear. I cringed at the fellow s stupidity.
crouch	A crouching stance or posture. He crouched down.
duck	Flesh of a duck domestic or wild. Before he could duck another stone struck him.
flinch	An act of flinching. I rarely flinch from a fight when I m sure of myself.
furtive	Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. A furtive manner.
grovel	Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one’s face downwards. He grovelled at George s feet.
huddle	A number of people gathered together to speak about private or secret matters. He controls the huddle and the team better than anybody else.
insidious	Beguiling but harmful. Insidious pleasures.
lurk	(of an unpleasant quality) be present in a latent or barely discernible state, although still presenting a threat. Danger lurks beneath the surface.
posture	Assume a posture as for artistic purposes. And still these two were postured motionless.
purloin	Make off with belongings of others. He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key.
rebound	The act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot. His shot hammered into the post and rebounded across the goal.
recoil	The action of recoiling. If man upsets his planetary ecosystem it will automatically recoil upon him.
say	(of a clock or watch) indicate (a specified time. Let us say that he did not tell the truth.
secretly	In secrecy; not openly. Met secretly to discuss the invasion plans.
shrink	Fit something tightly on or on to another object by expanding it with heat and then cooling it rapidly after positioning. The metal is unsuitable for shrinking on to wooden staves.
silently	Without speaking. She sobbed silently in the corner.
sit	A period of sitting. The Senate has 100 members who sit for 6 years.
sneak	Someone who prowls or sneaks about usually with unlawful intentions. Sneak a look.
snitch	Steal. Someone snitched my wallet.
squat	A squatting position. A squat grey house.
stealthily	In a stealthy manner. I woke up and stealthily crept downstairs.
stealthy	Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. Stealthy footsteps.
step	The sound of a step of someone walking. Step back.
surreptitious	Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of. A surreptitious glance at his watch.
wince	The facial expression of sudden pain. He winced at the disgust in her voice.