Creepy

Definition: Creepy

Creepy

Adjective

1. Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "creepy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Note: Creepy \Creep"y\, adjective. Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloquial]. (references)

Crosswords: Creepy

Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Mrs. Aylwood sure is creepy! (The Watcher in the Woods; writing credit: Brian Clemens; Florence Engel Randall)

Oh, no creepy talk in the precinct (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

They look like boiled beets, don't you think? And those Henderson kids? That electrocuted their dog when they were trying to get free cable? How smart can they be? Just remember, any kid who makes fun of you is a creepy little loser who will end up working in a car wash (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

I think we're going to attract a large group of just dirty, dirty, creepy old men because I think the word's gonna get out that we have a lot of male nudity in our film (Making of 'Jackass: The Movie'; writing credit: Danny Miller)

Creepy Time Pal (1960)

The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy (2002)

Giant Creepy Crawlies (2001)

Creepy Crawlies (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beastly Tales (Ghost of Fear Street Creepy Collections, No 2) (reference)

• Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: More Than 100 Hands-On Science Experiments for Children (reference)

• Creepy Creatures (reference)

• Creepy Susie: And 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children (reference)

• Draw 50 Creepy Crawlies (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• National Geographic's GeoKids: Creepy Creatures (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Creepy Eepy (reference)

• The Creepy Crawlies (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

It was worse than creepy, creaking noises. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "creepy": creepy-crawlies, creepy-crawliness, creepy-crawly.

Albanian

që të ndot, ngjethës (morbid, shivering, shocking, shuddering), kacavjerrës (creeping), i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, bored, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منمل, ‏زاحف (creeper, reptilian), ‏داب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

страховит (awesome, fearsome, macabre, scary), гаден (abominable, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), зловещ (bodeful, eerie, eery, ill-omened, lurid, ominous, portentous, screamy, sinister). (various references)

Chinese 

蠕动 (Creep, squirm, Wriggle, Wriggled, Wriggling). (various references)

Czech

strašidelný (frightening, ghostly, haunted, haunting, macabre, scary, spectral, spooky, unearthly), plazivý (reptile), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, unholy, unspeakable, villainous, weird), nahánìjící hrùzu (scary, threatening), hrùzný (apocalyptic, awesome, ghastly, harrowing, horrid, horrific, horrifying, scary). (various references)

French

terrifiant, rampé, qui donne la chair de poule, grimpé. (various references)

German

gruselig (gruesome, horrific, horrifying, scarfying, scary, spooky, weird). (various references)

Greek 

ανατριχιαστικόσ, τρέμων (palsied, shivery, trembly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעורר צמרמורת, מצמרר. (various references)

Hungarian

hátborzongató (eerie, eery, eldritch, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, morbid, uncanny, weird). (various references)

Italian

che fa accapponare la pelle. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

わが国 (arc, architecture, archive, archiver, argument, argyle, argyle check, be excited, bustling, creepy crawly, get nervous, hiragana for "we", hiragana for "wi", our country, our land, shuffling, slit, squirming, tremble, vagina, vulva). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わらわら (bustling, creepy crawly, shuffling, squirming). (various references)

Manx

snaueagh (buoyant, swimming), neuheiltagh (eerie, ethereal, uncanny, weird). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepycray.(various references)

Portuguese

rastejante (creeping, repent, reptile), arrepiante (eery, gruesome). (various references)

Romanian

târâtor (crawling, creeping, cringing, decumbent, grovelling, prostrate, reptile), înfiorãtor (awful, awfully, dread, dreadful, dreadfully, foully, gruesome, terrible). (various references)

Russian 

раболепный (creeping, fawning, menial, obsequious, servile, subservient), вызывающий гадливость, медленно двигающийся, ползающий (creeping), испытывающий гадливость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

jeziv (bloodcurdling, eerie, gruesome, horrible, lurid, macabre), grozan (atrocious, awful, dire, direful, ghastly, grisly, horrendous, lurid, macabre, plaguy, terrible). (various references)

Spanish

pavoroso (dread, dreadful, fearful, frightening, lurid, terrifying), horripilante (blood-curdling, eerie, gothic, grisly, hairy, horrifying, lurid, nerve racking), escalofriante (spine-chilling, spooky). (various references)

Swedish

skräck-, kuslig (dismal, eerie, eery, ghastly, gloomy, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre, uncanny, unearthly, weird), krypande (crawl, creep, creeping, cringing, decumbent, grovelling, obsequious, procumbent, servile, sycophantic), hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, alarmed, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frantic, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

sokulan, sürünen (creeping), emekleyen (creeping), ürpertici (creeping, gory). (various references)

Ukrainian

раболіпний (ancillary, humble, obsequious, servile, slavish, sneaky, subservient), що кидає в дрож, що відчуває гідливість, повзучий (creeping, procumbent, repent, wandering), плазуючий (creeping, repent, reptile, wormy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sởn gai ốc, sởn gáy, rùng mình, leo, làm sởn gai ốc bò, làm sởn gáy, làm rùng mình. (various references)

Misspellings

"Creepy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cerely, Ceriph, cready, crealy, creap, credy, creedy, Creely, creepe, creepit, creeply, crep, crepey, crepy, crevy, crey, cryp, crype, Kerepia, kreep, Kreepy, Mccreevy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crepey.

-1 letter: creep, crepe, crepy, peery.

-2 letters: cepe, cere, eery, eyer, eyre, peer, pree, prey, pyre.

-3 letters: cee, cep, cry, ere, eye, pec, pee, per, pry, pye, rec, ree, rep, rye, yep.

-4 letters: er, pe, re, ye.

+2 letters: cerotype, coryphee, creepily, cyphered, cypreses.

+3 letters: archetype, cerotypes, coryphees, cypresses, decrypted, encrypted, hypercube, hyperemic, perfectly, pericycle, precisely.

+4 letters: archetypes, clepsydrae, copyreader, cyberspace, decrepitly, everyplace, hyperacute, hypercubes, hyperpneic, hyperspace, hypocenter, keypuncher, pennycress, pericycles, permanency, pernickety, pertinency, precedency, preceptory, precertify, prepotency, presidency, prespecify, purveyance, pycnometer, repellency, screenplay.

+5 letters: copyreaders, cyberspaces, cyproterone, deprecatory, electrotype, heterotypic, hyperactive, hypercharge, hypermetric, hypermnesic, hyperspaces, hypocenters, imperfectly, imprecisely, keypunchers, nephrectomy, perceivably, perceptibly, persecutory, persistency, persnickety, presciently, pricelessly, purveyances, pycnometers, receptively, receptivity, respectably, screenplays, stereoscopy, stereotypic, superagency.