Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Of or producing a sensation of uneasiness or fear, as of things crawling on one's skin: a creepy feeling; a creepy story.
- adj. Informal Annoyingly unpleasant; repulsive: the creepy kids next door.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Chilled and crawling, as with horror or fear.
- See creepie, creepie.
Wiktionary
- adj. producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin
- adj. strangely repulsive
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. annoying and unpleasant
- adj. causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
Examples
“So I know there's been threads regarding creepy men and I can see why a guy might feel insulted or take the term creepy offensively.”
“Even the word creepy comes from the same word as the oldest term for folks like me, the politically incorrect cripple.”
“This is company who's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, described Google's approach this way: ÂThere is what I call the creepy line.”
The Huffington Post: Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown?
“This is company who's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, described Google's approach this way: There is what I call the creepy line.”
The Huffington Post: Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown?
“The kids are doing what they call creepy crawling.”
The Huffington Post: 'Magic Words' By Jill McCorkle: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
“There is what I call the creepy line," he said, according to The Hill.”
The Huffington Post: Eric Schmidt: Google's Policy Is To 'Get Right Up To The Creepy Line' (VIDEO)
“It's really remarkable how often I saw the word 'creepy'" in the survey comments, McKee said.”
“Classmates, relatives and friends were incensed over what they called creepy, insensitive messages about Pilkington, many posted anonymously and also appearing on other Internet sites since her death.”
“That's what I call creepy, spooky feelings like those the reader gets when Inman is up in the isolated deep mountains and you don't know if the Home Guard is about to find him.”
“If only people didn't keep dying horrible deaths in creepy corridors ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creepy’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end in -y
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 85 more...
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What A Creep...
Words that contain "creep".
creep, overcreep, undercreep, creephole, honeycreeper, creepy, creeper, creeping, tree-creeper, crust-creep, creeped, creeps and 13 more...
skipvia Help, mollusque! This is really creeping me out. Jul 1, 2009