Synonyms for creep
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1. CREEPnoun

   Synonyms:
   CRP

2. creepverb

   The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

   Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

   Synonyms:
   CRP, crawl

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun

   someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

   Synonyms:
   wraith, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, spook, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawl

2. creepnoun

   a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

   Synonyms:
   crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creeping

3. creepnoun

   a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

   Synonyms:
   crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creeping

4. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingverb

   a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

   "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creeping

5. crawl, creepverb

   move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

6. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfootverb

   to go stealthily or furtively

   "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

   Synonyms:
   cower, cabbage, filch, sneak, slip, fawn, snarf, purloin, crawl, grovel, nobble, cringe, pinch, hook, lift, swipe, pussyfoot, mouse, pilfer, abstract

7. creepverb

   grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

   "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

8. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

Matched Categories

1. • Bend
   • Change Of Location
   • Move
   • Pen
   • Spread Out

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1. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   crawl

2. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   steal, glide stealthily, come unnoticed

3. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cringe, play the sycophant

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1. List of paraphrases for "creep":

   deformation, vermin, monster, bastard, freak, asshole

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1. Rob Carnell:

   I think there's a tendency for markets at times to just want to be positive unless you hit them repeatedly, and not just with bad news, but with new bad news, there's been an awful lot of bad news priced in. So perhaps the absence of new negatives are enough to allow for a small sense of positivity to creep in.

2. Tony Spader:

   It’s fun to watch her live part of life where the disease doesn’t creep in, where she is just excited to be going and doing something that every child and every teenager gets to do, a lot of times there’s a joy filled moment, but yet there’s a little sorrow.

3. Clifton Fadiman:

   Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

4. Søren Kierkegaard:

   Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

5. Rory McIlroy:

   It’s just about resetting your goals, just trying to keep improving as a player, try to not let complacency creep in at any point, i think at times when you get successful and you maybe enjoy a little bit of that success, that complacency can creep in.