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Creepy vs. Eerie — What's the Difference?

Creepy vs. Eerie — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Creepy and Eerie

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Creepy

Of or producing a sensation of uneasiness or fear, as of things crawling on one's skin
A creepy feeling.
A creepy story.

Eerie

Eerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's voluntary Comics Code Authority.

Creepy

Annoyingly unpleasant; repulsive
The creepy kids next door.

Eerie

Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.

Creepy

Moving by creeping along.
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Eerie

(Scots) Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

Creepy

(informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.

Eerie

Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way.
The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.

Creepy

(informal) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.

Eerie

(Scotland) Frightened, timid.

Creepy

(informal) Strangely repulsive.
That creepy old man keeps leering at me!

Eerie

An eerie creature or thing.

Creepy

Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.
One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy.

Eerie

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
She whose elfin prancer springsBy night to eery warblings.

Creepy

Annoying and unpleasant;
Some creepy kids were bothering her

Eerie

Affected with fear; affrighted.

Creepy

Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin;
A creepy story
I had a creepy-crawly feeling

Eerie

Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious;
An eerie feeling of deja vu

Eerie

So strange as to inspire a feeling of fear;
An uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods
An eerie midnight howl

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