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say it: HAWN-ting
haunting is an adjective meaning "continually recurring to the mind". It is pronounced /ˈhɔntɪŋ/ — HAWN-ting. It carries 2 recorded senses.
continually recurring to the mind
“haunting memories”
“the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty”
having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect
“from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration”
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 haunting 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.