creep up

1. 1.

   advance stealthily or unnoticed

   “Age creeps up on you”

   Synonymssneak up

   Broaderadvance

Questions about creep up

What does creep up mean?

creep up means "advance stealthily or unnoticed".

What is another word for creep up?

Close synonyms include sneak up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is creep up a common word?

creep up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.