creaturenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkriː.tʃər/us/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/B1 any large or small living thing that can move independently:
Rainforests are filled with amazing creatures.
Don't all living creatures have certain rights?
Blue whales are the largest creatures ever to have lived.
used to refer to a life form that is unusual or imaginary:
The unicorn is a mythical creature.
The film was about creatures from outer space.
The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.
used to refer to a person when an opinion is being expressed about them:
John is a strange/weak/pathetic creature.
A lovely blonde creature (= a beautiful blonde woman) walked into the room.
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- The unicorn is a fabulous creature.
- Strangely, no one believed us when we told them we'd been visited by a creature from Mars.
- We saw many creatures of the forest.
- His book examines the symbolism of many mythical creatures.
- The log was home to all sorts of little creatures.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Plants & animals - general words
- animal kingdom
- autotroph
- biped
- bloodsucker
- carnivore
- flora
- flora and fauna
- greenery
- herbivore
- heterotroph
- non-placental
- omnivore
- omnivorous
- parasite
- parasitic
- secondary consumer
- songster
- vegetation
- vertebrate
- warm-blooded
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Mythological & legendary characters
People in general
Idiom(s)
be the creature of sb/sth
creature of habit