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say it: HAWN-tid
haunted is an adjective meaning "having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something". It is pronounced /ˈhɔntɪd/ — HAWN-tid. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
showing emotional affliction or disquiet
“her expression became progressively more haunted”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for haunted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.