'Haunting' definitions:

Definition of 'haunting'

From: WordNet
adjective
Continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: haunting, persistent]
adjective
Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee

Definition of 'Haunting'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Synonyms of 'haunting'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Haunting'