creepy
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
creepy (comparative creepier, superlative creepiest)
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- 1920, Algernon Blackwood, First Hate
- “I felt creepy and afraid,” continued the other, with conviction. “I had the sensation of being seen by someone—as if someone, I mean, was watching me. […]
- 1920, Algernon Blackwood, First Hate
- (informal) Strangely repulsive.
- That creepy old man keeps leering at me!
- French: angoissant, flippant
- German: gruselig, schaurig, schauerlich, unheimlich
- Italian: angosciante, inquietante
- Portuguese: horripilante
- Russian: жу́ткий
- Spanish: espeluznante
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