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. colloq. 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
Etymologies
- creep + -y (Wiktionary)
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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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.co...ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 136 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
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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What A Creep...
Words that contain "creep".
creep, overcreep, undercreep, creephole, honeycreeper, creepy, creeper, creeping, tree-creeper, crust-creep, creeped, creeps and 13 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Words from 2009 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' film.
ravishing, juggle, rehearsal, in bulk, hoard, miser, detract, appendage, ordain, slick, scent, innuendo and 68 more...
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is this all there is
this is it
dillema, destruction, conundrum, proxy, spurious, usurp, divulge, vapid, lucid, malicious, ubseqious, burden and 75 more...
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Things I have been called...
...to my face.
creepy, old, moody, calm, lazy, thin, depressed, angry, horny, patient, jerk, bitter and 6 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for creepy.
skipvia Help, mollusque! This is really creeping me out. Jul 1, 2009