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Synonyms for creature
ˈkri tʃərcrea·ture

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.5 / 2 votes

  1. creature

    Synonyms:
    being, animal, thing, body, brute

    Antonyms:
    chimera, ghost, bugbear

Princeton's WordNet3.6 / 8 votes

  1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

    Synonyms:
    zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, beast, wolf, savage

  2. creature, wightnoun

    a human being; `wight' is an archaic term

    Synonyms:
    puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, brute, beast

  3. creature, tool, puppetnoun

    a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

    Synonyms:
    brute, animate being, shaft, puppet, prick, tool, peter, fauna, marionette, pecker, animal, beast, putz, instrument, wight, cock, dick

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  1. bimennoun

    unable to explain

    unable to give out an example

    Submitted by andrewm.30460 on January 13, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes2.0 / 1 vote

  1. creaturenoun

    Synonyms:
    being (animate or inanimate), thing, substance, body, created being

  2. creaturenoun

    Synonyms:
    animal, living being

  3. creaturenoun

    Synonyms:
    man, person

  4. creaturenoun

    Synonyms:
    dependant, retainer, vassal, parasite, minion, hanger-on

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. creaturenoun

    Synonyms:
    being

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "creature":

    creatures, beast, monster, pisces, ogre

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Creature":

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#823thing
#1247tool
#1294animal
#1370peter
#2152cock
#3045dick
#3682instrument
#4049monster
#4619beast
#5073wolf
#8524shaft
#8808creatures
#9792savage
#9827creature
#15375puppet
#16135fauna
#16634wight
#19536zoology
#23477brute
#24517pisces
#26826wildcat
#28087prick
#29254ogre
#48560marionette
#52871pecker
#91044putz

How to use creature in a sentence?

  1. John Stuart Mill:

    A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  2. Thomas à Kempis:

    If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

  3. Karl Marx:

    Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  4. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

    The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

  5. Thomas Bailey:

    The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.


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