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haunting

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hauntpresent participle and gerund of haunt

    A ghost was haunting the house.

adjective

  1. 1

    Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.

    He had a haunting gaze.

noun

  1. 1

    A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

    During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.

    They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.

Forms

plural
hauntings
comparative
more haunting
superlative
most haunting
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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).