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synonyms for haunted

• preyed upon

How to use haunted in a sentence

TikTok users created half-pint haunted houses, complete with micro-clowns and to-scale blood stains.

Everyone, no matter where they’re trapped in the world, is also trapped in their own head, and some people’s heads are a little more haunted than others.

It won at its haunted house of Utah in the wee Eastern hours, forcing five turnovers so that a person in the East might have kept waking and wondering whether a fumble was a new fumble or a replay of a previous fumble.

Official guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marked traditional celebrations such as trick-or-treating and haunted houses as high risk for potential coronavirus exposure.

External stimuli are useful but what if instead of a haunted house happening around you, you were immersed in it.

Despite his efforts to live in the present, he seemed haunted by the specter of his father.

He read technical journals about film and haunted the theaters and film production companies.

Even though the police and my family and friends believed me, that one voice of doubt is the one that haunted me most.

Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives?

The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.

Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.

Mrs. Paula was one of those women that haunted the cheap shops and bargain-counters, and was always in debt.

Pa Babcock affirmed the tale and declared that this was why he had left off working on the haunted farm.

Once, when a boy, he had seen Henry Irving in Faust; he saw the devils on the haunted mountain; he heard their hideous cries.

I should be ashamed that pages, tear-stained and dream- haunted , should fall beneath the eyes of grave, sober-minded folk.

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Words Related To haunted

• apparitional
• insubstantial
• supernatural

magic/magical

• charismatic
• clairvoyant
• ensorcelled
• extraordinary
• fascinating
• necromantic
• otherworldly
• parapsychological
• spellbinding
• spiritualistic
• telekinetic
• thaumaturgic

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• as in eerie
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Thesaurus Definition of haunting

 (Entry 1 of 2)

Synonyms & Similar Words

• metaphysical
• supernatural
• enigmatical
• inscrutable
• preternatural
• unaccustomed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• commonplace
• unremarkable
• unexceptional
• predictable

Thesaurus Definition of haunting  (Entry 2 of 2)

• frequenting
• hanging (at)
• resorting (to)
• habituating
• patronizing
• running (in)
• calling (on or upon)
• stopping (by or in)
• stopping (over)
• staying (at)
• dropping in
• popping (in)
• camping (out in)
• dropping by
• overrunning
• sojourning (at)
• tarrying (in)

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“Haunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haunting. Accessed 4 Nov. 2023.

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Synonyms for haunted

• preoccupied

having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

Related words, showing emotional affliction or disquiet, inhabited by or as if by apparitions.

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• haughtiness
• hausmannite
• haute couture
• haute cuisine
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• have a ball
• have a bun in the oven
• have a go at it
• have a good time
• have a look
• have in mind
• haunch arch
• haunch board
• Haunch bone
• Haunch of Venison
• haunched beam
• haunched mortise-and-tenon joint
• haunched tenon
• Haunches of an arch
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What is another word for haunted ?

Pronunciation:

[ hˈɔːntɪd], [ hˈɔːntɪd], [ h_ˈɔː_n_t_ɪ_d]

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Synonyms for Haunted:

• apparitional
• eat sleep and breathe
• have on the brain
• immersed in
• really into
• up to here in
• wound up with
• wrapped up in
• preyed upon
• extra-ordinary
• more conjuring
• more demoniac
• more ensorcelled
• more entranced
• more necromantic
• more parapsychological
• more sorcerous
• more spellbinding
• more spiritualistic
• more telekinetic
• more tranced
• more witching
• more witchlike
• more wizardly
• most conjuring
• most demoniac
• most ensorcelled
• most entranced
• most necromantic
• most parapsychological
• most sorcerous
• most spellbinding
• most spiritualistic
• most telekinetic
• most tranced
• most witching
• most witchlike
• most wizardly
• para psychological
• para-psychological
• hair raising
• hairraising
• hyper physical
• hyper-physical
• more hyperphysical
• most hyperphysical
• not of world
• not this world
• super-human
• un earthlier
• un earthliest
• un godliest
• un reasonable
• un-earthlier
• un-earthliest
• un-godliest
• un-reasonable
• intimidated
• set on edge

Other synonyms:

• doppelganger
• guardian angel

Other relevant words:

• Thaumaturgic
• Thaumaturgical
• associate with
• go around with
• in a fright
• preoccupied
• remembering
• supernatural
• worried sick
• worried stiff
• Hyperphysical
• ensorcelled
• extra ordinary
• necromantic
• not of this world
• parapsychological
• spiritualistic
• telekinetic

How to use "Haunted" in context?

Haunted houses and museums have become popular tourist destinations in recent years. But what is the history of hauntings, and why are they now so popular?

The history of hauntings dates back to ancient times. During the Middle Ages, people believed that hauntings were caused by the spirits of the dead. These ghosts would visit living people and cause them to experience fear or anxiety.

As Christianity began to gain more popularity in the Middle Ages, people began to believe in the afterlife. Because the dead were believed to be living in a different realm, they were thought to be capable of causing harm to the living.

Paraphrases for Haunted:

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• Verb, past participle afflicted , baffled , beset , bothered , burdened , consumed , desired , disturbed , dogged , encumbered , filled , harassed , hunted , intended , obsessed , oversexed , perplexed , persecuted , plagued , possessed , pursued , puzzled , ravaged , sought , tormented , troubled , vexed , Hounded , Overshadowed , Racked , Visited , Prosecuted , fixated .

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