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Synonyms for spook
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Princeton's WordNet
creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun
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, spectreverb
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, refinementspookverb
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
"The noise spooked the horse"
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#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 |
How to use spook in a sentence?
The wage numbers were a little warm, but that wasn't enough to spook people.
Chinese authorities wouldn't want to trigger a meltdown which would spook investors and we may see more market stabilising measures on the way.
You can always talk yourself into a recession, if businesses start shedding jobs in anticipation of a recession, that is going to spook consumers -- and that can get us into a recession.
Sometimes we spook ourselves, so it remains to be seen how slow is slow, how bad is bad, let's see how the first quarter looks.
I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans. Such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.
Translations for spook
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- شبحArabic
- GespenstGerman
- espectroSpanish
- ترساندنPersian
- haamuFinnish
- bamboulaFrench
- խփեցArmenian
- spettroItalian
- רוּחַHebrew
- taipōMāori
- spion, kabouter, neger, schijnsel, spook, verspieder, geestDutch
- SpookNorwegian
- пугать, вспугивать, призрак, ниггер, шпионRussian
- spöke, osalig andeSwedish
- پھینک دیاUrdu
- spookYiddish
- 惊吓Chinese
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