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haunted

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈhɔːntɪd//
  • //ˈhɑntɪd//

Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

    The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

  2. 2

    Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).

    a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

  3. 3

    Showing a feeling of being disturbed.

    a haunted expression

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hauntsimple past and past participle of haunt

    According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

Forms

comparative
more haunted
superlative
most haunted, hauntedest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).