Halloween is an annual holiday observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day.
During Halloween we witness costume parties and events where people dress up as their favorite horror or scary character such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, scary looking witches, and devils.
Adjective Words to Describe Halloween
Following are commonly used spooky adjective words to describe Halloween and give you chills:
| abominable | dreadful | mortal |
| afflicted | dressed-up | muddy |
| ancient | eerie | mummified |
| ashen | enchanted | mysterious |
| autumn-inspired | evil | mystical |
| barbed | fang-tastic | nasty |
| bewitching | fear-inspiring | nauseous |
| black | fiery | nighttime |
| bloodcurdling | frightening | nocturnal |
| bloody | frightful | noxious |
| bodiless | fun | occult |
| bone-chilling | ghostly | offensive |
| boo-licious | ghoulish | ominous |
| boo-tiful | glow-in-the-dark | orange |
| chilling | gooey | otherworldly |
| corpselike | gory | pagan |
| corrupt | goth | panicked |
| costumed | gross | peculiar |
| cowardly | gruesome | perilous |
| creeped out | gruesome | perverted |
| creepy | haggard | pestilent |
| creepy crawly | hair-raising | possessed |
| crude | haunted | preternatural |
| cruel | haunting | prickly |
| cursed | heinous | profane |
| damned | horrible | pungent |
| damp | howling | putrid |
| dank | icky | rabid |
| dark | inhuman | rampant |
| dastardly | lewd | rank |
| dead | looming | rattling |
| deadly | lurid | repulsive |
| decapitated | lurking | revolting |
| decayed | macabre | satanic |
| deceased | magical | savage |
| demonic | make-believe | scared |
| depraved | malformed | scary |
| devilish | masked | scream-worthy |
| dire | melancholy | screaming |
| dirty | merciless | seeping |
| disembodied | mischievous | shadowy |
| disguised | monstrous | shaking |
| dismal | moonlit |
| Shrill | squeamish | tarnished |
| spell-binding | startling | terrified |
| spine-chilling | sticky | terrifying |
| spine-tingling | stormy | thorny |
| spook-takular | strange | thrilling |
| spookalicious | sullen | tragic |
| spooked | supernatural | treacherous |
| spooky | superstitious | trembling |
| undead | unearthly | unnerving |
| wailing | warped | waxy |
| weary | weird | wicked |
| wild | witchy | wormy |
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