Usually means: Eliciting unease through unsettling characteristics.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word creepy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. creepy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. creepy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. creepy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. creepy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. creepy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Creepy, creepy: Wordnik
  7. creepy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. creepy: Wiktionary
  9. creepy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. creepy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. creepy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Creepy, creepy: Dictionary.com
  13. creepy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Creepy (band), Creepy (disambiguation), Creepy (film), Creepy (magazine), Creepy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Creepy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. creepy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. creepy: Rhymezone
  18. Creepy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. creepy: Free Dictionary
  20. creepy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. creepy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. creepy: Legal dictionary

(Note: See creepier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Moving by creeping along.
adjective:  (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
adjective:  (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
adjective:  (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
adjective:  (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.

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