Word Meanings - CREEPINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.

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• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• CURIOUSLY
  In a curious manner.
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• UNEASY
  1. Not easy; difficult. Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott. 2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. The soul, uneasy and confined from
• ALEXANDERS; ALISANDERS
  A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.
• CREEPIE
  A low stool.
• CREEPING CHARLIE
  The stonecrop .
• CREEPINGLY
  by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• CURIOUS
  1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. Little curious in her clothes. Fuller. How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith Bean & 2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;
• CREEPER
  A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). (more info) 1. One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . .
• CREEPHOLE
  1. A hole or retreat onto which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger. 2. A subterfuge; an excuse.
• SENSATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
• CURIOUSNESS
  1. Carefulness; painstaking. My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger. 2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. 3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
• CREEPING
  1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20. 2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. Ceeping crowfoot
• SUPERCURIOUS
  Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.
• INCURIOUSNESS
  Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERCREEP
  To creep secretly or privily. Wyclif.
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.
• INCURIOUS
  Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless. Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERCURIOUS
  Too curious.