Synonyms for spook
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1. creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun

   someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

   Synonyms:
   wraith, creep, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawl

2. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectreverb

   a mental representation of some haunting experience

   "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, phantom, wraith, shade, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, specter, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinement

3. spookverb

   frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

   "The noise spooked the horse"

Matched Categories

1. • Frighten
   • Unpleasant Person

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1. spooknoun

   Synonyms:
   ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin

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1. List of paraphrases for "spook":

   scare, frighten, spy, ghost, startle, shiner

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1. Michael Piwowar:

   I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans. Such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.

2. Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man":

   I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

3. David Carter:

   The inflation boogeyman is back right on cue, and will continue to spook markets for the coming months.

4. Stephen Massocca:

   The wage numbers were a little warm, but that wasn't enough to spook people.

5. Karine Hirn:

   There is still too much uncertainty in the markets and investors would be watching developments in Greece and China very carefully before jumping in, chinese authorities wouldn't want to trigger a meltdown which would spook investors and we may see more market stabilising measures on the way.