1
as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a spooky horse shying at shadows
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2
as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
a spooky tale of strange hauntings and mysterious reincarnations
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Recent Examples of spooky
Fear not—these last-minute costume options are easy to make at home and will look fabulous even when up against the people who were able to plan ahead for the spookiest night of the year.
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Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
What’s spookier than Halloween this fall?
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
As what many Michiganders consider the spookiest night of the year approaches, the National Weather Service is predicting a pretty typical Halloween in Detroit.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
The spookiest day of the year is just a few days away and after a stretch of rain and chilly temperatures, more wet weather is on the way.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Oct. 2025
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Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
What’s spookier than Halloween this fall?
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
As what many Michiganders consider the spookiest night of the year approaches, the National Weather Service is predicting a pretty typical Halloween in Detroit.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
The spookiest day of the year is just a few days away and after a stretch of rain and chilly temperatures, more wet weather is on the way.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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At the Ricardo residence in the ’50s sitcom I Love Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks.—
Michael Gioia,
Architectural Digest,
1 Apr. 2026
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Between each dance was an excruciating silence during which network-TV producers monitored and reset their equipment while the men fidgeted onstage like excitable children.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Dark, eerie, and paranoid (for good reason), the eight-episode season shifts back and forth from the casual grimness of an unwelcoming reality to the shocking frights of a stoner’s worst nightmare (the latter of which is shrewdly motivated by Rachel regularly smoking pot).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2026
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Multitracked saxophones swarm over a pit of molten bass frequencies, slipping between sentimental consonance—you might momentarily be reminded of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score—and eerie discord.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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Who isn’t nervous meeting the prospective in-laws for the first time?—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Jason Bateman delivers the mundane analogy like a pro, blending sincerity and uncertainty inside his singular, nervous vocal rhythms.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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Glimpses came through in the haunting stream of ambulances in empty New York City streets or images of overflowing morgues.—
Fenit Nirappil,
Washington Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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Jose Antonio Ramos died March 7 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, prosecutors wrote in a court filing in the case of Pedro Hernandez — the man now facing a third trial in Etan's haunting and infamous case.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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The idea behind him, especially in the pilot, was to introduce a few creepy male figures so the Sorry Man reveal lands at the end.—
William Earl,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2026
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Thankfully, the creepy foot-fetish guys are fewer in numbers these days.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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