Creature

Noun

 * 1)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 2) *1633, John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
 * Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
 * 1) A living being; an animal or human.
 * 2) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 3) * 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 240:
 * they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:creature

Related terms

 * create
 * created
 * creates


 * creating
 * creation
 * creations


 * creative
 * creatively
 * creator


 * creators
 * creatrices
 * creatrix

Derived terms

 * creature comfort

Adjectives
rare; likable; upstanding; honest-looking; lovable;  admirable;  brilliant;  luscious; docile; glorious; winning; fine; great-hearted; fascinating; gentle; amiable; demure; marvelous; shy; thin; shortsighted; anemic; limitary; tiny; spiritless; forlorn; obscure; slipshod; ravishing; frugal; despicable; smitten; archaic; perennial; little; dull;  yellowish-white;   faithful-looking; foolish; struggling; furry; rational; perfect; smooth; pretty; plausible; absurd; doll-like;  finite;   delicate;   sentimental; divine; web-footed; insensible; industrious; drugging; stricken; nasty; ill-bred; inconsequent;   voracious;    carnivorous; graceful; effeminate; singular; crawling; eyeless; fictitious; overflowing; threadbare; fantastic; bewildering; amphibious; pusillanimous; sensitive; hideous; perverse; desperate; inquisitive; silly; helpless; dependent; brutal; faithful; charming; loathsome; formidable; clear-eyed; harmless; fiery; frail; overgrown; carnal; phlegmatic; unhappy; purest; plainest; kind-hearted; magnanimous; artless; predatory; ever-interesting; nervous; timorous; blunt; pleasant; clambering; monstrous; indigenous; affec¬tionate; sensible; cordial; loving; sweetest; dearest; stealthy; gregarious; insignificant; decrepit; two-fold; strenuous; easy; anxious; poor; unteachable; writhing; tortured; piteous; strange; romantic; sickly; faded; kindly; stout; untidy-looking; flowery; harlequin-like; ridiculous; glorious; foul; infinitesimal; hapless; reasonable; amendable; worthy; horned; love-maddened; coarsegrained;  unwashed;  flexible;  noxious; hairless; diminutive; beastly; poor-spirited; unpolished; veiled; healthy-looking; governmental ; discouraged; mendacious; precious; paltry; good-humored; vile; sagacious; dismal-looking; vagrant; nomadic; ferocious; primest; stupid; exquisite; grotesque;  exotic;  miserable;   intellectual; irascible; insufferable; silk-clothed; obliging; goodly; inarticulate; new-made; natural; crooked; shameless; fawn-eyed; gigantic; bewitching; non-aggressive; fickle; thoughtful;  grave;   wistful;   tolerable; human; fearful; sincere; cherubic; yearling; dainty; tallowy; slight;  girlish; dawdling; beautiful; ravenous; injudicious; timid; sinful; driven; sweated; magnificent; doe-eyed; clinging; frenzied; heartless; ferocious-looking; impudent; fairest; mongrel; dying; wasted; vivid; earnest; grasping; sylphlike; fine-looking, gorgeous-looking; pretty; dark-eyed; spirited; handsome; elegant; dazzling; furtive; crafty; scheming; wily; baffling; uncanny; wise; cunning; uncouth; spineless; affrighted; gentle; meek-spirited; weak; weary; luckless; poor; humble; long-legged; gaunt; gangling; angular; ragged; emaciated; loose-jointed;  lanky;   cadaverous-faced; weird; strange; odd-looking; stodgy; porkish; kind; plump; flabby; huge; muscular; poised; self-confident; vital; energetic; big; forthright; hearty; blithe; buxom; sprightly; flippant; self-assured; capricious; sad; ugly; humdrum; stunted; strong-willed; stubborn; obstinate; queer-looking; humpbacked; passive; senseless; idiotic; silliest-looking; star-eyed; sinuous; beady-eyed; slim; bird-like; yellow-striped; half-wild; shy; feathered; migratory; feline; screeching; aquatic; lone; marsh; biting; crawling; forest; pathological; merry; wild; thankless; winged; troublesome; bloodthirsty; mangy-looking; broken; disintegrated; dirty; disheveled; unshorn; emaciated; filthy; ragged; detestable; menacing; primitive; worthless; undesirable; vicious-looking; tarnished; distressing; careless; wretched; half-blind; tottering; imaginary; mythical;   fastidious;   talkative;   plain; huddle; two-legged; newly-evolved; vehement; gaudy; unvapory.

Verbs
cage―; curse―;  despise―;  distress―; eye―; feed―;  hunt―; hurt―;  kill―; loathe―; oppress―; slay―; tame―; torture―; trap―; ―echoes; ―senses; ―stirs; ―walks.

Thesaurus
Adamite, Charlie McCarthy, 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, brown-nose, brownie, brute, cat, chap, character, 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

Alternative forms

 * creäture

Etymology
Existing since in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via  from  creatura, from creare.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: създание,
 * Cebuano:
 * Croatian: biće
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: væsen
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: (1,2),  (1,2)
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: יצור (yetzur) (1-4 - animate)
 * Italian:


 * Kazakh: туынды
 * Kurdish: زنده‌وه‌ر
 * Macedonian: суштество
 * Norwegian: skapning
 * Old English:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish: istota, stworzenie , stwór
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: creatură,, făptură
 * Russian: существо, создание, творение, тварь
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: creatura (archaic), criatura
 * West Frisian: skepsel

Noun
creature



Etymology
creatura:.

Noun

 * 1) ; being; entity

Descendants

 * English:
 * French: