haunted
inhabited or frequented by ghosts: a haunted castle.
preoccupied, as with an emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace.
disturbed; distressed; worried: Haunted by doubt he again turned to law books on the subject.
Origin of haunted
1Other words from haunted
- un·haunt·ed, adjective
Words Nearby haunted
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How to use haunted in a sentence
TikTok users created half-pint haunted houses, complete with micro-clowns and to-scale blood stains.
Everyone, no matter where they’re trapped in the world, is also trapped in their own head, and some people’s heads are a little more haunted than others.
It won at its haunted house of Utah in the wee Eastern hours, forcing five turnovers so that a person in the East might have kept waking and wondering whether a fumble was a new fumble or a replay of a previous fumble.
In this unhinged year, the CFP selection committee faces an even more indecipherable task | Chuck Culpepper | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostOfficial guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marked traditional celebrations such as trick-or-treating and haunted houses as high risk for potential coronavirus exposure.
Parents are going the extra mile to save Halloween for their kids | Emily Davies | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostExternal stimuli are useful but what if instead of a haunted house happening around you, you were immersed in it.
Despite his efforts to live in the present, he seemed haunted by the specter of his father.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe read technical journals about film and haunted the theaters and film production companies.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven though the police and my family and friends believed me, that one voice of doubt is the one that haunted me most.
Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives?
The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.
Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonMrs. Paula was one of those women that haunted the cheap shops and bargain-counters, and was always in debt.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonPa Babcock affirmed the tale and declared that this was why he had left off working on the haunted farm.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondOnce, when a boy, he had seen Henry Irving in Faust; he saw the devils on the haunted mountain; he heard their hideous cries.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingI should be ashamed that pages, tear-stained and dream-haunted, should fall beneath the eyes of grave, sober-minded folk.
Marguerite | Anatole France
British Dictionary definitions for haunted
/ (ˈhɔːntɪd) /
frequented or visited by ghosts
(postpositive) obsessed or worried
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