All creepy synonyms
creep·y
C c adj creepy
- nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- disgusting — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- ghoulish — strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- awful — If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- weird — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- itchy — having or causing an itching sensation.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- unpleasant — not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
- itching — of, relating to, or characterized by an irritating sensation of the skin.
adjective creepy
- scary — causing fright or alarm.
- spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
- uncanny — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- strange — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- unnerving — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
- unsettling — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
- spooky — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.