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say it: KREE-pee
creepy is an adjective meaning "annoying and unpleasant". It is pronounced /ˈkɹipi/ — KREE-pee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
“a creepy story”
“I had a creepy-crawly feeling”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for creepy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.