creepiest
Most skin-crawling sensation
Creepiest is the superlative form of creepy—the most unsettling or disturbing among those being compared.
Something earns this designation by producing the strongest sense of unease or skin-crawling discomfort: That's the creepiest house on the block, He's the creepiest guy I've ever met.
The word often describes people, places, or behaviors that feel vaguely threatening without obvious cause.
Causing loss of composure
- disquietingCausing unease or worry
- disturbingCausing mental unease
- disconcertingCausing unease or confusion
- off-puttingCausing mild aversion
uncomfortable · uneasy · skin-crawling · queasy · wrong · peculiar · abnormal · anomalous
Eerily beyond normal
- eldritchWeirdly supernatural, disturbingly strange
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
haunting · mysterious · arcane · cryptic · shadowy · gothic · nocturnal · liminal
Occupied by ghosts
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
poltergeist · graveyard · crypt · cobweb · cemetery · séance · jack-o'-lantern · Halloween
Evoking extreme fear
- horrifyingCausing extreme fear
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
- monstrousFrighteningly huge or wicked
- hideousExtremely unpleasant to see
gruesome · menacing · threatening · bloodcurdling · hair-raising · spine-tingling · petrifying · alarming
unnerving
Causing loss of composure
- disquietingCausing unease or worry
- disturbingCausing mental unease
- disconcertingCausing unease or confusion
off-putting · uncomfortable · uneasy · skin-crawling · queasy · wrong · peculiar · abnormal · anomalous · uncanny
uncanny
Eerily beyond normal
- eldritchWeirdly supernatural, disturbingly strange
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
phantasmal · haunting · mysterious · arcane · cryptic · shadowy · gothic · nocturnal · liminal · ethereal
haunted
Occupied by ghosts
apparition · poltergeist · graveyard · crypt · cobweb · cemetery · séance · jack-o'-lantern · Halloween · skeleton
terrifying
Evoking extreme fear
- horrifyingCausing extreme fear
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
- monstrousFrighteningly huge or wicked
hideous · gruesome · menacing · threatening · bloodcurdling · hair-raising · spine-tingling · petrifying · alarming · shocking
creepiestwarmest
Superlative of hot-adjacent
coziest · safest · snuggliest · homiest