creature
nounEtymology
From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. By surface analysis, create + -ure. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Doublet of craythur and critter.
Definitions
A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- insects and other creatures
- But what would be the sentiment of uppertendom, when it should be rumored that the beautiful young creature, of the proud Clarence Delwood's choice, had stooped so low, as to maintain herself by her own hands?
- Urologists often want live sea horses for study of kidney disorders, for the sea horse is one of the few marine creatures with functioning kidneys.
An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- When it comes to this creature you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about physiology. For example, when its appendages emerge to feed, they do so using incredible bursts of growth, quite unlike anything ever seen before […]
- Tammy and Cherise heard the creature's roar. “I think they got him,” Tammy said. “See, I told you. Everything's going to be alright.” Cherise smiled. The beast swung its other, human-like arm, knocking the entire barricade down, […]
- The group stood motionless as an entire stream of creatures emerged from the canyons and then passed through, one after another. All were formed from the same undead materials, limbs and trunks and heads conveying nauseatingly lush […]
A human.
- He's a creature of habit.
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
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A created thing, whether animate or inanimate
A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
- the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature.
- Must not then all understanding Creatures center in their Creator, as in the highest and best of Beings? And must not this Creator then be eſſentially God? What Infatuation then is it, that leads Men to think of a Creature-Creator?
A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
The neighborhood
- synonymcreature
- synonymbeing
- neighborcreate
- neighborcreating
- neighborcreation
- neighborcreative
- neighborcreatively
- neighborcreator
- neighborcreatrix
- neighborentity
- neighborperson
- neighboranimal
- neighborbugbear
- neighborunicorn
Derived
a little of the creature, autism creature, creatural, creature comfort, creaturedom, creature feature, creaturehood, creaturekind, creatureless, creaturelike, creatureling, creaturely, creature of habit, creature of statute, creature of the night, creatureship, creaturess, creaturish, creaturism, creaturize, creetur, cratur, craythur, cybercreature, diaper creature, mercreature, mer-creature, spokescreature, TBH creature, treeture, werecreature, were-creature, yippee creature, critter
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at creature. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at creature. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at creature
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA