Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Frequently visited or resorted to by apparitions or the shades of the dead; visited by a ghost: as, a haunted house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a location,
frequented by aghost or ghosts. - adjective Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
- adjective Showing a feeling of being
disturbed . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
haunt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing emotional affliction or disquiet
- adjective having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- adjective inhabited by or as if by apparitions
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Examples
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Emily Dickinson, an American poet, once wrote, «Nature is a haunted house, but art is a house that tries to be haunted».
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It's not a role I contemplated, but the title haunted me for years.
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It's funny, I'm not a bit frightened at what they call the haunted room here -- the room that's next to Aunt Blanche's, in the other wing of the house.
From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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These episodes are stark reminders that for many, the landscapes of Georgia, like many others across the nation, remain "haunted," stalked by the remembered specters of racial violence, oppression, and hatred.
"Return to Sender" Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes 2002
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For those influenced by the intellectual traditions of psychoanalysis, to speak of a person or a landscape as "haunted" is to imply that they are caught up in unresolved contradictions, in enduring traumas that cannot be neatly classified as belonging to the "past."
"Return to Sender" Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes 2002
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The experience of being haunted is usually described as being indistinguishable from the experience of mental anguish, and associated with melancholia, alienation and anxiety.
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The experience of being haunted is usually described as being indistinguishable from the experience of mental anguish, and associated with melancholia, alienation and anxiety.
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These fragments convey Wordsworth's well-known narrative fixation on a spot (a ruin haunted by the absence of a dead woman).
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
...With Fairy Tales For All Heather McDougal 2008
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Conan had been told dark tales of hidden temples where intense smoke drifted up incessantly from black altars where kidnapped humans were sacrificed before a great coiled serpent, whose fearsome head swayed forever in haunted shadows.
Robert E. Howard (indirectly) on religion « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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