Synonyms for creaky
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : kree-kee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkri ki |
Top 10 synonyms for creaky Other synonyms for the word creaky
- age-old
- aged
- ancient
- anile
- annealed
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- antique
- back number
- bedraggled
- been around
- benumbed
- brittle
- buckram
- bygone
- cemented
- chilled
- congealed
- contracted
- doddering
- early
- effete
- few miles on
- firm
- fixed
- fossil
- fragile
- frail
- frozen
- getting on
- graceless
- gray
- haggard
- hardened
- hoary
- immalleable
- impliable
- incapacitated
- incompliant
- indurate
- inelastic
- infirm
- insubstantial
- jelled
- lot of mileage
- mechanical
- moth-eaten
- numbed
- obsolete
- old
- old goat
- old-fashioned
- older
- oldie
- ossified
- out-of-date
- outmoded
- over the hill
- passé
- petrified
- primal
- primeval
- primordial
- quavering
- ramshackle
- refractory
- relic
- remote
- resistant
- rheumatic
- rickety
- rigid
- run-down
- rusty
- seedy
- senescent
- senile
- senior citizen
- set
- shabby
- shaking
- shot
- solid
- solidified
- starched
- starchy
- stark
- steely
- stiff as a board
- stony
- superannuated
- tacky
- taut
- tense
- thick
- thickened
- threadbare
- tight
- timeworn
- tired
- tottering
- tumble-down
- unbending
- unflexible
- ungraceful
- unsound
- unsupple
- unyielding
- used
- venerable
- wasted
- weak
- weakly
- weather-beaten
- wooden
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
Définition of creaky
Origin :- 1834, from creak + -y (2). Related: Creakily; creakiness.
- As in stiff : adj hard, inflexible
- As in decrepit : adj deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age
- As in aged : adj old
- As in ancient : adj old, often very old
- Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Then he shaped with his mouth to use that and not the stairs, for the stairs were creaky.
- Extract from : « W. A. G.'s Tale » by Margaret Turnbull
- Lovers now-a-days are much too middle-aged, and their joints are creaky.
- Extract from : « The Explorer » by W. Somerset Maugham
- Then came a nervous shuffling of boots on the creaky boards.
- Extract from : « The Border Legion » by Zane Grey
- It was a little unsteady and creaky to walk on, but very imposing to look at.
- Extract from : « The Enchanted Castle » by E. Nesbit
- Luckily there was a creaky board on which he had stepped a few minutes ago.
- Extract from : « The House by the Lock » by C. N. Williamson
- They must have been exhausted, lame, besides, to judge from the creaky way they moved.
- Extract from : « Unexplored! » by Allen Chaffee
- Then someone—Hall guessed it was Marina—sat down in a creaky armchair.
- Extract from : « The Five Arrows » by Allan Chase
- The expression tickled him into a creaky, croaky sort of laugh.
- Extract from : « A Maid of the Kentucky Hills » by Edwin Carlile Litsey
- I said, "Something of the commonest," and he has brought me a fiacre that seems as moribund and creaky as myself.
- Extract from : « Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. » by Charles James Lever
Antonyms for creaky
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