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creeptacular

adj

Etymology

From creep + -tacular.

  1. derived from *grewbʰ-✻ — “to turn, wind”
  2. inherited from *kreupaną✻ — “to twist, creep”
  3. inherited from *kreupan✻
  4. inherited from crēopan — “to creep, crawl”
  5. inherited from crepen
  6. suffixed as creeptacular — “creep + tacular”

Definitions

  1. Extremely creepy.

    • The debut from New York's First Nation is spooky and beautiful aboriginal lullaby music, culled from God-knows-what sorts of string instruments, creeptacular vocal harmonies and more than a little bit of punk attitude.
    • Because Rains's Universal horror breakthrough three decades earlier had never been a matter of costume—The Invisible Man is creeptacular for its special effects, […]
    • I hated all creepy crawly things, whether bugs, spiders or snakes and had no desire to look down at the creeptacular scene below us.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA