haunted
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːntɪd/
:
atormentado
- Medicine Wolf sat up, and Tom almost gasped at the haunted look in her eyes.
- haunted look
- haunted eyes
- haunted face
Why am I tormented and haunted yet again?
- Why am I tormented and haunted yet again?
- I also am haunted by the story of Notch, the creator of Minecraft.
- I believe this one, the main character feels kind of haunted by the ex-wife of her new husband.
- You know, I'm not a real seance or but this little fucking bro, this dude look haunted.
- I'd translate the word love as fascination, obsessed by, haunted by with transsexuals.
- And so, yeah, that had to happen for me to be haunted, to be haunted, to pull out, to extract the God in the day.
- No, I'm still haunted by that's that's a different, that's a different game.
Examples
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You look like a haunted man.
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At moments like this, when she got lost in her head, the haunted look would come.
Fiction book (1992) -
Except for his eyes, which seem as haunted as those of his last portraits.
Fiction book (2001) -
They all just had that same haunted look on their face.
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Her smile brightened, and the dark and haunted look in her eyes turned almost playful.
Fiction book (1993) -
Les was a very intense fellow, thin, heavily tanned, very fit-looking, but with haunted eyes.
Fiction book (1992) -
To Dumont's consternation, tears welled up in the haunted brown eyes and spilled in rivulets down Brynn's freckled face.
Fiction book (1992) -
You look like a haunted man who has seen too much in life.
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At moments like this, the haunted look in her eyes revealed her deep worries.
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They all just had that same haunted look on their face, as if they carried heavy burdens.
Synonyms
201
2.7
Feeling worried or nervous about something that might happen
32
4.5
Thinking so much about something that you do not notice what is happening around you
8
6.2
Having a quiet, serious mood that feels dark
Antonyms
Compounds
How Troubled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Haunted used for a person's face comes from the same root haunt, which meant 'to visit often' but was used for memories or worries. So if someone is 'haunted' by something, it keeps coming back to them and their face looks tired and worried.