spooky
Giving you chills
Spooky means eerie or suggestive of ghosts and the supernatural: a spooky old house, spooky noises in the attic.
The word is lighter than frightening—more playful than genuinely terrifying.
Something spooky unsettles without necessarily scaring.
Informally, spooky describes uncanny coincidences: It's spooky how much she looks like her grandmother.
Disturbingly strange
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- disquietingCausing unease or worry
- disturbingCausing mental unease
dread · unease · apprehension · suspense · ominous · eerie · chilling · hair-raising
Spirits of the deceased
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
seance · paranormal · supernatural · possession · curse · exorcism · medium · clairvoyant
Obscured by darkness
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- whisperSpeech without full voice
gloom · twilight · mist · chill · shiver · crepuscular · ominous · enigmatic
creepy
Disturbingly strange
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- disquietingCausing unease or worry
disturbing · dread · unease · apprehension · suspense · ominous · eerie · chilling · hair-raising · goosebumps
ghosts
Spirits of the deceased
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
poltergeist · seance · paranormal · supernatural · possession · curse · exorcism · medium · clairvoyant · haunting
shadowy
Obscured by darkness
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
whisper · gloom · twilight · mist · chill · shiver · crepuscular · ominous · enigmatic · cryptic
jack-o-lanterns
Illuminated gourd faces
- costumesClothes for assuming roles
- trick-or-treatHalloween candy solicitation
- witchesPractitioners of dark magic
vampires · monsters · zombies · skeletons · cobwebs · bats · cackling · howling · goblins · cauldron
- fearfear, dread, afraid, fright, frightened
- mysteriousmysterious, cryptic, enigmatic, arcane, obscure
- strangenessodd, weird, strange, bizarre, peculiar
- Halloweenjack-o-lantern, trick or treating, haunted mansion, pumpkin, trick-or-treat
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
spookyordinary
Standard, unremarkable
normal · familiar · mundane · unremarkable · commonplace
spookynatural
Not artificially produced
earthly · explainable · rational · mundane · scientific
- spooky stories
- spooky seasonAutumn's eerie celebration period
- spook outCause unease or fear
- spooked out
spook, spooked, spooks, spookier, spooking, spookily, spookiness, spookiest, spooktastic