willies
Spine-tingling unease feeling
The willies are feelings of nervous unease or fear, often triggered by something creepy or unsettling: That abandoned house gives me the willies.
The word appears almost exclusively in the phrase the willies and with verbs like give, get, or have.
Just thinking about spiders gives me the willies.
Convulsive trembling from fear
- shiverInvoluntary trembling sensation
- trembleShake from fear
- quiverTrembling or arrow case
- flinchInvoluntary retreat from threat
twitch · gooseflesh · chill · prickle · tingle · wince · startle · jolt
Unsettling individuals
- shiversInvoluntary bodily trembling
- chillsShivering spells from illness
- goosebumpsRaised skin from cold
- uneaseMild persistent worry
dread · fright · spooks · nerves · apprehension · trepidation · foreboding · disquiet
Frightened into alertness
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
ominous · macabre · unsettling · spine-chilling · phantasmal · ghoulish · grisly · dreadful
shudder
Convulsive trembling from fear
flinch · twitch · gooseflesh · chill · prickle · tingle · wince · startle · jolt · convulse
creeps
Unsettling individuals
- shiversInvoluntary bodily trembling
- chillsShivering spells from illness
- goosebumpsRaised skin from cold
unease · dread · fright · spooks · nerves · apprehension · trepidation · foreboding · disquiet · alarm
spooked
Frightened into alertness
sinister · ominous · macabre · unsettling · spine-chilling · phantasmal · ghoulish · grisly · dreadful · creepy
- creepy feelingseeriness, spookiness, creepiness, dread, foreboding
- fear reactionsscream, scared, gasp, terrified, flinch
- shiversshiver, shivers, shudder, tremble, trembling
- agitationagitation, anxiety, worry, nervousness, unease
- aversionaversion, disgust, hatred, repulsion, loathing
- Cold Sensationschill, chills, shiver, shivers, shivering
williescalm
Free from agitation
composure · tranquility · equanimity · serenity · peace of mind
- ready and willingPrepared and eager
- God willingConditional hope invoking deity
- wet williesSlobbery ear poke
- Willie NelsonRedheaded outlaw singer
- Lord willingConditional hope invoking divinity
- Willie Mays
willing, unwilling, willingly, willingness, unwillingness, unwillingly, willie