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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something;
- Example: "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"
- Example: "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"
- Example: "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"
- Example: "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"
[syn: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)]

2. showing emotional affliction or disquiet;
- Example: "her expression became progressively more haunted"

3. inhabited by or as if by apparitions;
- Example: "a haunted house"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). [root]36.] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. [1913 Webster] You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. [1913 Webster] Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. [1913 Webster] 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Haunted \Haunt"ed\, 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. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

haunted adj 1: 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" [syn: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)] 2: showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted" 3: inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 stiff