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