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What is the adjective for creepy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs creep and creepify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

creepy
  1. (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
  2. (informal) Strangely repulsive.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. eerie, scary, spooky, frightening, terrifying, awful, chilling, eery, macabre, nightmarish, sinister, disturbing, harrowing, horrific, horrifying, menacing, ominous, petrifying, shocking, spookish, threatening, dreadful, freaky, ghostly, haunting, uncanny, weird, direful, hairy, horrible, scaring, unearthly, disgusting, eldritch, ghoulish, gruesome, nasty, strange, unpleasant, shuddersome, hair-raising, spine-chilling, blood-curdling, ghastly, frightful, fearsome, fearful, horrendous, alarming, terrible … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “We were assigned an old, tacky and creepy bedroom to put up in for the night.”
      “It was that creepy moment when you realize your ex-spouse has joined the same online dating site as you.”
      “He has worked on more than 300 Hollywood movies involving snakes, lizards, spiders, and other creepy crawlers.”
creepsome
  1. Characterised or marked by creepiness; creepy
creepered
  1. Covered in creepers.
creeptacular
  1. (slang) Extremely creepy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spooktacular
  3. Examples:
      4. “I hated all creepy crawly things, whether bugs, spiders or snakes and had no desire to look down at the creeptacular scene below us.”
creepoid
  1. (slang) Creepy.
creepazoid
  1. (slang) Creepy.
creepier
  1. comparative form of creepy: more creepy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eerier, scarier, spookier, awfuller, freakier, ghostlier, uncannier, weirder, hairier, horribler, unearthlier, disgustinger, gruesomer, nastier, stranger, unpleasanter, more frightening, more terrifying, more chilling, more macabre, more nightmarish, more sinister, more disturbing, more harrowing, more horrific, more horrifying, more menacing, more ominous, more spookish, more threatening, more dreadful, more haunting, more direful, more eldritch, more ghoulish, more shuddersome, more hair-raising, more spine-chilling, ghastlier, more frightful, more fearsome, fearfuller, more horrendous, more alarming, terribler, more forbidding, more intimidating, direr, more formidable, more redoubtable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Eyeballs, though obviously creepy, could soften the creepier creepiness inherent in Facebook's built-in semi-inadvertent voyeurism.”
      “I can tell you that there is no creepier feeling than being followed by a slow-moving vehicle driven by a john as he trolls your neighbourhood.”
      “Facebook has decided that the best way to increase revenue is to be creepier.”
creepiest
  1. superlative form of creepy: most creepy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eeriest, scariest, spookiest, awfullest, freakiest, ghostliest, uncanniest, weirdest, hairiest, horriblest, unearthliest, disgustingest, gruesomest, nastiest, strangest, unpleasantest, most frightening, most terrifying, most chilling, most macabre, most nightmarish, most sinister, most disturbing, most harrowing, most horrific, most horrifying, most menacing, most ominous, most spookish, most threatening, most dreadful, most haunting, most direful, most eldritch, most ghoulish, most shuddersome, most hair-raising, most spine-chilling, ghastliest, most frightful, most fearsome, fearfullest, most horrendous, most alarming, terriblest, most forbidding, most intimidating, direst, most formidable, most redoubtable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Now I'm a full-on, signed-up, bleeding-heart liberal, so please forgive me, but that's one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.”
      “The whole thing looked as though it had been staged by the creepiest of uncles.”
      “With their little antennae they are one of the creepiest bugs ever.”
crept
  1. simple past tense and past participle of creep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. changed, slipped, fit, fitted, dressed, sneaked, snuck, slinked, slunk, adorned, clad, cladded, creeped, dressed up, put on, slipped into, slipped on, suited up, wore, drest, worn, attired, clothed, robed, garbed, costumed, arrayed, appareled, apparelled, habited, caparisoned, suited, enrobed, decked out, bedecked, rigged out, got up, invested, togged up, togged out, gowned, vestured, toileted, outfitted, accoutred, bedizened, fitted out, gotten up, dolled up, garmented … more
creeping
  1. present participle of creep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sneaking, slinking, slipping, stealing, skulking, pussyfooting, lurking, sidling, prowling, tiptoeing, padding, edging, gliding, insinuating, encroaching, inching, gumshoeing, squirming, writhing, moving stealthily, moving furtively, treading warily, insinuating oneself, pulling oneself, dragging oneself, moving unnoticed, walking quietly, approaching unnoticed, crawling along, moving on all fours, moving on hands and knees, crawling on all fours, snaking, sliding, slithering, worming, wriggling, crawling, mousing, mooching, shirking, bellying, groveling, grovelling, sloping, easing, stalking, nosing, snooping, winding … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After more than two hours, the creeping train reached Cannes.”
      “I glance at the surrounding lands, where the grass grows waist-high and could easily conceal a creeping predator.”
      “Leaves on these creeping vines are often confused with herbaceous plants.”
creepified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of creepify
creepifying
  1. present participle of creepify
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