What's The Definition Of Creature?
[n] a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
[n] a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
[n] a person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
Synonyms | Synonyms for Creature: animal |
animate being |
beast |
brute |
fauna |
puppet |
tool |
wight
Related Terms | Find terms related to Creature: Adamite |
adherent |
aerobic organism |
agent |
an existence |
anaerobic organism |
ancilla |
animal |
apple-polisher |
appliance |
artifact |
ass-licker |
autotrophic organism |
backscratcher |
backslapper |
beast |
being |
bodily |
body |
bootlick |
bootlicker |
brainchild |
brownie |
brown-nose |
brute |
cat |
chap |
character |
Charlie McCarthy |
child |
clawback |
cog |
coinage |
commonality |
commonalty |
composition |
concoction |
contrivance |
courtier |
creation |
creature comforts |
creeping thing |
cringer |
critter |
crowning achievement |
customer |
dependent |
device |
disciple |
distillation |
duck |
dumb animal |
dumb friend |
dummy |
dupe |
earthling |
effect |
end product |
entelechy |
entity |
essence |
extract |
fawner |
fellow |
feudatory |
figurehead |
flatterer |
flunky |
follower |
footlicker |
front |
front man |
fruit |
genetic individual |
gillie |
go-between |
goon |
groundling |
groveler |
guy |
hand |
handiwork |
handmaid |
handmaiden |
handshaker |
hanger-on |
head |
helot |
henchman |
heterotrophic organism |
hoi polloi |
homager |
homo |
human |
human being |
implement |
individual |
inferior |
instrument |
interagent |
intermediary |
intermediate |
intermedium |
invention |
issue |
jackal |
joker |
junior |
kowtower |
lackey |
lay figure |
led captain |
lever |
lickspit |
lickspittle |
liege |
liege man |
life |
lightweight |
living being |
living soul |
living thing |
lower class |
lower orders |
man |
manufacture |
masses |
masterpiece |
masterwork |
material |
mealymouth |
mechanism |
mediator |
medium |
microbe |
microorganism |
midwife |
minion |
mintage |
monad |
morphological individual |
mortal |
mundane |
myrmidon |
new mintage |
nominal head |
nose |
object |
offspring |
one |
ont |
opera |
opus |
opuscule |
organ |
organic being |
organism |
organization |
origination |
outcome |
outgrowth |
party |
pawn |
peon |
person |
persona |
personage |
personality |
physical |
physiological individual |
plaything |
product |
production |
puppet |
reptile |
result |
retainer |
satellite |
second fiddle |
secondary |
serf |
servant |
single |
slave |
somebody |
someone |
something |
soul |
spaniel |
stooge |
subaltern |
subordinate |
suck |
superficial |
sycophant |
tellurian |
terran |
thing |
third stringer |
thug |
timeserver |
toad |
toadeater |
toady |
tool |
toy |
truckler |
tufthunter |
underling |
understrapper |
unit |
varmint |
vassal |
vehicle |
virus |
votary |
work |
worldling |
yeoman |
yes-man |
zooid |
zoon
See Also | acrodont |
adult |
animal kingdom |
animal tissue |
Animalia |
being |
biped |
captive |
caput |
chordate |
conceptus |
creepy-crawly |
critter |
darter |
dead animal |
domestic animal |
embryo |
face |
female |
fertilized egg |
fictional animal |
game |
giant |
head |
herbivore |
human |
individual |
insectivore |
invertebrate |
kingdom Animalia |
larva |
male |
marine animal |
mate |
metazoan |
migrator |
molter |
mortal |
moulter |
mutant |
offspring |
omnivore |
organism |
peeper |
person |
pet |
pleurodont |
predator |
predatory animal |
prey |
pureblood |
purebred |
quarry |
racer |
scavenger |
sea animal |
slave |
somebody |
someone |
soul |
stayer |
stunt |
survivor |
thoroughbred |
varment |
varmint |
vermin |
work animal |
young |
zooplankton
Creature In Webster's Dictionary
\Crea"ture\ (kr?"t?r; 135), n. [F. cr?ature, L.
creatura. See {Create}.]
1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially,
any being created with life; an animal; a man.
He asked water, a creature so common and needful
that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
--Fuller.
God's first creature was light. --Bacon.
On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him
first, him last, him midst, and without end.
--Milton.
And most attractive is the fair result Of thought,
the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper.
2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a
poor creature; a pretty creature.
The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak.
3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a
servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak.
Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
--Macaulay.
4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
{Creature comforts}, those which minister to the comfort of
the body.
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