haunted
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːntɪd/
:
embrujado
- Many believe that the haunted hotel has a history of strange occurrences and ghost sightings.
- a haunted house
- a haunted place
I'm also seeing How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Andrix.
- I'm also seeing How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Andrix.
- And people say it's haunted, but I haven't experienced that.
- I had a lady who believed her house was haunted all right.
- I am almost sure that it's haunted.
- All I can come up with there is haunted apartment ghosts.
- But it's still the the medium that gave us most haunted and ghost hunters.
- And so I'm like, I I made my house haunted video or it didn't happen.
- It's just like a creepy house may or may not be haunted on a Cliff.
Examples
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During Halloween, visitors flock to the haunted house, eager to experience its spooky atmosphere.
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Lena half-expected the door to make a creaking noise like in a haunted house when she closed it.
Fiction book (1996) -
I had a lady who believed her house was haunted all right.
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So is this like a haunted house situation?
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Welcome to the haunted abandoned Christmas castle.
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There is a haunted part of the Big Island of Hawaii that few people visit.
Academic text (2011) -
They ended up believing that our first floor apartment was haunted because they heard footsteps.
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The séance in a haunted house on Halloween.
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Whenever she entered Charms & Virtues, she thought of haunted houses and old cemeteries.
Fiction book (1997) -
The old mansion at the edge of town is said to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
Synonyms
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3.2
Strange and frightening in a way that makes you feel nervous, like a ghost
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5.1
A strange, frightening feeling as if ghosts are nearby
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4.7
Having a pale, quiet look that feels scary
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7.5
Looking like a ghost and causing fear
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6.5
Having a pale, thin, and quiet appearance that feels spooky
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9.9
Looking like a ghost and seeming unreal
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9.9
Having the look or feel of a ghost
Compounds
How Spooky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Haunted comes from the old verb haunt, which originally meant 'to visit often' or 'to live in'. So a place called 'haunted' was a place people went to again and again, and later those visitors were imagined to be spirits or ghosts.