HAUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haunted mean? 

• HAUNTED (adjective)
  The adjective HAUNTED has 3 senses:

1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

2. showing emotional affliction or disquiet

3. inhabited by or as if by apparitions

  Familiarity information: HAUNTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAUNTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

Synonyms:

haunted; obsessed; preoccupied; taken up

Context example:

he was taken up in worry for the old woman

Similar:

concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing emotional affliction or disquiet

Context example:

her expression became progressively more haunted

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Inhabited by or as if by apparitions

Context example:

a haunted house

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I. I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Even in the night, in his dreams, he was haunted by this fear.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

With a pull he had me up beside him, and a moment later we were both in the haunted house.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when Laurie was gone, and peace prevailed again, the vague anxiety returned and haunted her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She could not even get her proper rest, for she was haunted by the fear that Hans would yield to his mania and kill Dennin while she slept.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I now made arrangements for my journey, but one feeling haunted me which filled me with fear and agitation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My night was haunted by the thought that somewhere a clue, a strange sentence, a curious observation, had come under my notice and had been too easily dismissed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It haunted me when I got home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She looked back at us from the door, and I had a last impression of that beautiful haunted face, the startled eyes, and the drawn mouth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)