I don't know what kind of creature is making such a terrible noise outside tonight.
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Creature
//ˈkɹiː.tʃə//
Synonyms for "creature" (241 found)
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Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (72)
courtiercovecreature comfortscreeping thingcringercrowning achievementcustomerdependentdevicediscipledistillationduckdumb animaldumb frienddummydupeearthlingeffectend productentelechy
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entityessenceexistenceextractfaithful servantfawnerfellowfeudatoryfigureheadflattererflunkyfollowerfootlickerfrontfront manfruitgenetic individualgilliego betweengo-betweengoongroundlinggrovelerguyhandhandiworkhandmaidhandmaidenhandshakerhanger onhanger-onheadhelothenchmanheterotrophic organismhoi polloihomagerhomohumanhuman beingimplementindividualinferiorinstrumentinteragentintermediaryintermediateintermediuminventionissuejackal
Noun(1 words)
Related words (120)
johnnyjokerjuniorkowtowerlackeylay figureled captainleverlickspitlickspittleliegeliege manlifelightweightliving beingliving soulliving thinglower classlower ordersman
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manufacturemassesmasterpiecemasterworkmaterialmealymouthmechanismmediatormediummicrobemicroorganismmidwifeminionmintagemonadmorphological individualmortalmundanemyrmidonnew mintagenominal headnoseobjectoffspringoneontoperaopusopusculeorganorganic beingorganismorganizationoriginationoutcomeoutgrowthpartypawnpeonpersonpersonapersonagepersonalityphysicalphysiological individualplaythingproductproductionpuppetreptileresultretainersatellitesecond fiddlesecondaryserfservantsingleslavesomebodysomeonesomethingsoulspanielstoogesubalternsubordinatesucksuperficialsycophanttellurianterranthingthird stringerthugtimeservertoadtoadeatertoadytooltoytrucklertufthunterunderlingunderstrapperunitvarmintvassalvehiclevirusvotaryworkworldlingyeomanyes manyes-manzooidzoon
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesat location
13 entriesderived
34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
distinct from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
8 entriesrelated to
78 entriesShowing 16 of 78 words.
used for
6 entriesTranslations
148 translations across 84 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- gjalles noun (living being)
- gjallese noun (living being)
Arabic
3 entries- كَائِن noun (living being)
- كَائِن حَيّ noun (living being)
- مَخْلُوق noun (living being)
Aramaic
3 entries- ܒܪܝܬܐ noun (living being)
- ܚܝܘܬܐ noun (living being)
- ܥܒܕܐ noun (living being)
Armenian
2 entries- արարած noun (living being)
- էակ noun (living being)
Aromanian
1 entries- hiintsã noun (living being)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- məxluq noun (living being)
Belarusian
2 entries- стварэ́нне noun (living being)
- істо́та noun (living being)
Bengali
4 entries- জানোয়ার noun (living being)
- জীব noun (living being)
- প্রাণী noun (living being)
- মখলুক noun (living being)
Breton
1 entries- krouadur noun (living being)
Bulgarian
3 entries- създа́ние noun (living being)
- същество́ noun (living being)
- твар noun (living being)
Burmese
1 entries- သတ္တဝါ noun (living being)
Catalan
1 entries- creatura noun (living being)
Cebuano
1 entries- mananap noun (living being)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- زندەوەر noun (living being)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 生物 noun (living being)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 生物 noun (living being)
Cornish
2 entries- kreatur noun (living being)
- kroadur noun (living being)
Czech
2 entries- stvoření noun (living being)
- tvor noun (living being)
Danish
1 entries- væsen noun (living being)
Dutch
3 entries- creatuur noun (living being)
- schepsel noun (living being)
- wezen noun (living being)
Estonian
1 entries- olend noun (living being)
Finnish
3 entries- olento noun (living being)
- olio noun (living being)
- otus noun (living being)
French
2 entries- créature noun (living being)
- être noun (living being)
Galician
1 entries- criatura noun (living being)
Georgian
1 entries- არსება noun (living being)
German
4 entries- Fabelwesen noun (living being)
- Geschöpf noun (living being)
- Kreatur noun (living being)
- Lebewesen noun (living being)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 noun (living being)
Greek
2 entries- δημιούργημα noun (living being)
- πλάσμα noun (living being)
Hebrew
2 entries- בִּרְיָה noun (living being)
- יְצוּר noun (living being)
Hindi
4 entries- जंतु noun (living being)
- जानवर noun (living being)
- प्राणी noun (living being)
- मख़्लूक़ noun (living being)
Hungarian
1 entries- teremtmény noun (living being)
Icelandic
1 entries- skepna noun (living being)
Indonesian
1 entries- makhluk noun (living being)
Irish
2 entries- créatúr noun (living being)
- dúil noun (living being)
Italian
1 entries- creatura noun (living being)
Japanese
2 entries- 生き物 noun (living being)
- 生物 noun (living being)
Kazakh
4 entries- жанды noun (living being)
- жаратылыс noun (living being)
- мақұлық noun (living being)
- туынды noun (living being)
Khmer
1 entries- សត្វ noun (living being)
Korean
1 entries- 생물 noun (living being)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жандык noun (living being)
- макулук noun (living being)
Lao
1 entries- ສັດ noun (living being)
Latin
1 entries- creātūra noun (living being)
Latvian
1 entries- radījums noun (living being)
Lithuanian
2 entries- būtybė noun (living being)
- padaras noun (living being)
Macedonian
2 entries- битие noun (living being)
- суштество noun (living being)
Malay
1 entries- makhluk noun (living being)
Mongolian
2 entries- амьтан noun (living being)
- бутээл noun (living being)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mexlûq noun (living being)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skapning noun (living being)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skapning noun (living being)
Old English
1 entries- ġesceaft noun (living being)
Old Occitan
1 entries- creatura noun (living being)
Pali
2 entries- jantu noun (living being)
- satta noun (living being)
Pashto
1 entries- مخلوق noun (living being)
Persian
2 entries- مخلوق noun (living being)
- موجود noun (living being)
Polish
3 entries- istota noun (living being)
- stworzenie noun (living being)
- stwór noun (living being)
Portuguese
1 entries- criatura noun (living being)
Romanian
3 entries- creatură noun (living being)
- ființă noun (living being)
- făptură noun (living being)
Russian
4 entries- созда́ние noun (living being)
- существо́ noun (living being)
- тварь noun (living being)
- творе́ние noun (living being)
Sanskrit
2 entries- जन्तु noun (living being)
- सत्त्व noun (living being)
Scots
1 entries- craitur noun (living being)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- creutair noun (living being)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bíće noun (living being)
- stvorénje noun (living being)
- stvȍr noun (living being)
- би́ће noun (living being)
Slovak
2 entries- stvorenie noun (living being)
- tvor noun (living being)
Slovene
1 entries- stvor noun (living being)
Spanish
4 entries- creatura noun (living being)
- creatura noun (living being)
- criatura noun (living being)
- críter noun (living being)
Swahili
1 entries- kiumbe noun (living being)
Swedish
1 entries- varelse noun (living being)
Tagalog
1 entries- nilalang noun (living being)
Tajik
2 entries- мавҷуд noun (living being)
- махлуқ noun (living being)
Tatar
1 entries- мәхлүк noun (living being)
Thai
1 entries- สัตว์ noun (living being)
Tocharian B
1 entries- onolme noun (living being)
Turkish
2 entries- mahluk noun (living being)
- yaratık noun (living being)
Turkmen
1 entries- mahluk noun (living being)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ство́ріння noun (living being)
- твари́на noun (living being)
- тварь noun (living being)
- істо́та noun (living being)
Urdu
2 entries- جانور noun (living being)
- مخلوق noun (living being)
Uyghur
1 entries- مەخلۇق noun (living being)
Uzbek
1 entries- mahluq noun (living being)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sinh vật noun (living being)
- tạo vật noun (living being)
Volapük
1 entries- jafäb noun (living being)
Welsh
1 entries- creadur noun (living being)
West-Frisian
1 entries- skepsel noun (living being)
Yiddish
2 entries- באַשעפֿעניש noun (living being)
- בריאה noun (living being)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
If it were not for water, no creature could live.
Source: tatoeba (30748)
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
Source: tatoeba (33335)
A mouse is a timid creature.
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