Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skin-crawling

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
skin-crawl-ing
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Horrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.

Inflected Forms

more skin-crawling (comparative) most skin-crawling (superlative)

Synonyms

flesh-crawling

Questions

What does skin-crawling mean?
Horrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.

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