different between creepy vs haunted

English

Etymology

creep +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?i?pi/

• (General American) enPR: kr??p?, IPA^(key): /?k?ipi/
• Rhymes: -i?pi
• Hyphenation: creep?y

Adjective

creepy (comparative creepier, superlative creepiest)

1. Moving by creeping along.
2. (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
3. (informal) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
   • 1920, Algernon Blackwood, First Hate

     “I felt creepy and afraid,” continued the other, with conviction. “I had the sensation of being seen by someone—as if someone, I mean, was watching me. […]

4. (informal) Strangely repulsive.

   That creepy old man keeps leering at me!

Translations

See also

• creepy-crawly

Anagrams

• crepey, crêpey

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hônt, IPA^(key): /?h??nt?d/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?nt?d/
• Hyphenation: haunt?ed

Adjective

haunted (comparative more haunted, superlative most haunted or hauntedest)

1. Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

   The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

2. Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).

   a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

3. Showing a feeling of being disturbed.

   a haunted expression

Translations

Verb

haunted

1. simple past tense and past participle of haunt

   According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

Anagrams

• de-haunt, dehaunt, nut head, nut-head, nuthead, undeath, unhated