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unhaunted

unhaunted

8.8
No ghosts or spirits live there
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈhɔːntɪd/
translation icon : sin fantasmas
  • The old house has remained unhaunted ever since the new owners moved in, with no signs of spirits or ghosts.

Examples

  • Despite its eerie appearance, the castle was unhaunted and had no history of ghost sightings.

  • The children played in the spacious, unhaunted park, free from any ghostly legends or stories.

  • Hamlet's jests in the graveyard, morbid as they are, seem remarkably unhaunted, his puns lacking their earlier corrosive, slightly hysterical edge.

    Academic text (1994)

Antonyms

haunted
67 5.1

A place where ghosts appear or live

Surface Forms

unhaunted positive

Morphology

unhaunted = haunt (transparent) = un + haunt

The meaning is directly derived from 'haunt' with the prefix 'un-' indicating the negation of being haunted.

Etymology

Unhaunted comes from un- meaning 'not' and haunt meaning 'to be visited by a ghost', like in a haunted house. So unhaunted describes a place people think has no ghosts.