creatures

NOUN

being, beast

Synonyms

STRONGEST

animal critter fellow individual living thing man person soul woman

STRONG

body brute creation mortal party personage quadruped varmint

WEAK

living being lower animal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

plant

WEAK

abstract inanimate

Example Sentences

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The new law supposedly explains how living creatures evolve increasingly complex features without defying thermodynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The tiny furry creatures weighed just 5.8 and 7.6 pounds.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Earlier studies had interpreted the marks as evidence of wormlike creatures or other tiny marine animals moving through seafloor sediment during the Ediacaran period, which came just before the Cambrian explosion.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

The creatures I’m mentioning here aren’t flukes in the animal kingdom.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

It was about seals, the beautiful creatures who live in two worlds.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell