haunting

English

Verb

haunting

1. present participle and gerund of haunt

   A ghost was haunting the house.

Adjective

haunting (comparative more haunting, superlative most haunting)

1. Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.

   He had a haunting gaze.

Derived terms

• hauntingly
• hauntingness
• unhaunting

Translations

Remaining in the mind

Bulgarian: натрапчив (bg) (natrapčiv) Russian: навя́зчивый (ru) (navjázčivyj) Ukrainian: нав'я́зливий (navʺjázlyvyj)

Noun

haunting (plural hauntings)

1. A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

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

   • 1945, C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce:

     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.

Derived terms

• intelligent haunting
• residual haunting

Translations

an instance of haunting

Esperanto: sorĉado, hantado French: hantise (fr) Hungarian: kísértetjárás (hu) Icelandic: reimleiki m

Anagrams

• Nighantu, nighantu, unhating