haunted
IPA: hˈɔntʌd
adjective
- Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
- Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
- Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
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Examples of "haunted" in Sentences
- The haunted house is spooky.
- The men execrated the haunted house.
- The old house is said to be haunted.
- Seymour was of the belief that the homestead was haunted.
- It's not a role I contemplated, but the title haunted me for years.
- I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
- Emily Dickinson, an American poet, once wrote, «Nature is a haunted house, but art is a house that tries to be haunted».
- These fragments convey Wordsworth's well-known narrative fixation on a spot (a ruin haunted by the absence of a dead woman).
- 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.
- The experience of being haunted is usually described as being indistinguishable from the experience of mental anguish, and associated with melancholia, alienation and anxiety.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."