haunting

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

evil, green, old, purple, repeated, soulful, strange

VERB + HAUNTING

called

HAUNTING + NOUN

-, castle, europe, forests, lorenzo's, melodies, melody, mountains

PREP.

during, in, on, with

Definitions

adj

Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.

He had a haunting gaze.

noun

A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.

They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.

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Synonyms

adjective — continually recurring to the mind

persistent

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

He had a haunting gaze.

Wiktionary

During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.

Wiktionary

They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.

Wiktionary

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.

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A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism.

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I've always found this song to be so haunting.

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