Word Study
haunted
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective haunted has 3 senses
- haunted(s = adj.all) obsessed, preoccupied, taken up - having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"
- haunted(s = adj.all) Array - showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted"
- haunted(s = adj.all) Array - inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"
CIDE DICTIONARY
haunted, a.
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. [1913 Webster]
"All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses." [1913 Webster]
Are haunted houses." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
haunted
beset, dogged, fretted, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, harassed, harried, hounded, mindful, nagged, obsessed, persecuted, plagued, possessed, rankled, remembering, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, tormented, unable to forget, vexed, worried, worried sick, worried stiffROGET THESAURUS
haunted
Demon
N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.
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