creature

Plural

creatures

1. 1.A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.

   • Creatures are fascinating. From miniscule bugs to great beasts of the deep, ferocious dinosaurs to cuddly-looking pandas.
   • Urologists often want live sea horses for study of kidney disorders, for the sea horse is one of the few marine creatures with functioning kidneys.
   • One answer to that is “No”: sounds exist in the perspective of creatures who can hear, although sound waves would still be bouncing around in the absence of such creatures.

2. 2.An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.

   • You cannot compare the strength of a man to that of a tiger, but nevertheless, the tiger is still the inferior creature.

3. 3.A human.

   • He's a creature of habit.
   • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

4. 4.A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

   • We are creatures of a good, beneficent and loving Creator. We are made by this good God for Himself.
   • For the creature tends to close union with the Creator, and union alone is the perfection of all true worship.
   • Several aspects of the creature-Creator relation can be drawn from Rom 1:18–32 and other Pauline texts. First, the relation between man-as-creature and God-the-Creator is more than a “static/positional” reality.

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Everyday conversation

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General reading & writing

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Academic

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Synonyms

• animal
• beast