CREATURES Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

creatures

noun

plural of creature

as in men

a member of the human race we must try to be kind to our fellow creatures

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as in animals

one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings a saint who is celebrated for his love of birds and other small creatures

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Recent Examples of creatures Showing off import sheets related to bats, seahorses and other creatures, Tlusty illustrated how this works. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Contrary to their reputation, bats are not fearsome creatures but unsung ecological heroes. — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026 In place of analysis, The Surrealist Menagerie provides a panoply of alternately delightful and disturbing creatures, generating unexpected pairings through its focus on the animal. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 As one of the world’s leading manta ray research organizations, The Manta Trust is dedicated to educating and conserving habitats for these majestic creatures. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026 Deploy cunning and operate in darkness, like those shapeshifting, half-human, half-wolf creatures revered in German folklore. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 Fittingly, the building's form resembles one of these majestic sea creatures diving into the water. — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026 Staff worked overnight to stabilize the creatures and acclimate them to aquarium systems. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 Her daughter, who is an animal lover, has learned about marine creatures by scuba diving and going on submarine rides on their trips. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Two men accused of armed robberies during Facebook Marketplace transactions were arrested in Fort Worth, police said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026
In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of men

Noun

The body itself was badly decomposed after spending an unknown amount of time exposed to the elements, with animals, bugs and rain, plus 50 years in storage.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Because the existing hole was too small, crews used a saw to cut a larger opening and lowered a ladder inside to give the animals an easy way out.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of animals

Noun

Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Definition of people

Noun

Anedda’s way of capturing different moments from different linguistic or interpretive points of view allows the everyday elements of our lives to find space in poetry, democratically.

— Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
During their reign in Hollywood’s Golden Age, their lives and cinematic work played out ideals about femininity and its expectations in American culture writ large.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of lives

Noun

For Katwala, the most impressive elements from the Games were the robots playing tennis, seeming to react to the movement of the ball and, in a match featuring robots playing alongside humans in doubles, of their partner, too.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Drier conditions are here to stay, and so is the reality that big reductions to demand are the main way for humans to adapt to that future.

— Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of humans

Noun

Treated almost as living beings themselves, many of the artworks in the LACMA installation take up animate relations to one another.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
In the face of European colonization, Aboriginal artists created images of powerful ancestral beings, a new study has found.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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