Haunted

[haunt]

Something that's haunted seems to have ghosts. Visiting a scary haunted house is a great, if terrifying, way to spend Halloween night.

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Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.

Adjective S.
having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry fo

Adjective S.
inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"

Adjective S.
showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted"


imp. & p. p.
of Haunt

a.
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.


Haunted

Haunt"ed, a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses.

Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.

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Usage Examples

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

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