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spooked

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.

adjective

  1. 1

    A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.

  2. 2

    Being spied upon by security or intelligence services.

  3. 3

    informalTaken off guard; astonished; surprised.

  4. 4

    Duped into believing a spook.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of spooksimple past and past participle of spook

Forms

comparative
more spooked
superlative
most spooked
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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).