Synonyms for creature
Definitions
- n. 1
A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
insects and other creatures
- n. 2
An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
Related words
- Word family
- create creation creative creator creatrix
- Phrases
- autism creature creature feature diaper creature yippee creature
- Is a kind of
- entity
Forms
- Plural
- creatures → animals, beasts, critters, beings…
Choose the right word
Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- animal An animal can be much more dangerous when wounded.
- beast Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- fauna The local flora and fauna are incredibly diverse.
- brute I memorized the fact sheet through sheer brute force.
- puppet Tom uses sock puppet accounts to upvote his posts.
- existence No one knows when this custom came into existence.
By length
- 3 letters
- man1
- 4 letters
- body2, tool1
- 5 letters
- being2, thing1, beast1, fauna2, brute1, wight1
- 6 letters
- person2, animal3, puppet2, minion2, vassal2
- 7 letters
- critter2
- 8 letters
- creation3
- 9 letters
- existence3, dependent3, substance2, dependant
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (body2 = 2 syllables).