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Unaccustomed vs Creepy - What's the difference?

unaccustomed | creepy |

As adjectives the difference between unaccustomed and creepy

is that unaccustomed is not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed while creepy is producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.

unaccustomed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
    He is unaccustomed to the cold.

    Derived terms

    * unaccustomedly * unaccustomedness

    creepy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
  • Strangely repulsive.
  • See also

    * creepy-crawly

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