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Synonyms for spook
spuk
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Princeton's WordNet
creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook(noun)
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Synonyms:
wraith, creep, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawlghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre(verb)
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
Synonyms:
phantasma, phantom, wraith, shade, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, specter, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinementspook(verb)
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
"The noise spooked the horse"
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #2192 | touch | |
| #3304 | crazy | |
| #3680 | spy | |
| #4082 | tone | |
| #4692 | ghost | |
| #5503 | trace | |
| #8025 | shade | |
| #9683 | phantom | |
| #13901 | scare | |
| #14216 | crawl | |
| #16448 | refinement | |
| #18621 | creep | |
| #18886 | tad | |
| #20266 | looney | |
| #22481 | crawling | |
| #24573 | specter | |
| #25431 | tint | |
| #26337 | creeping | |
| #27757 | spectre | |
| #37939 | nuance | |
| #43167 | frighten | |
| #43191 | subtlety | |
| #44415 | wraith | |
| #48948 | shiner | |
| #50492 | apparition | |
| #50705 | weirdo | |
| #51175 | loony | |
| #51312 | spook | |
| #51887 | tincture | |
| #68351 | startle | |
| #73055 | phantasm | |
| #99861 | nutcase | |
| #103984 | ghostwriter | |
| #182397 | nicety |
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