Synonyms for haunted
haunt·ed

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1. haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, unconcerned, uninhabited

2. hauntedadjective

   showing emotional affliction or disquiet

   "her expression became progressively more haunted"

   Synonyms:
   obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)

   Antonyms:
   uninhabited, untroubled, unconcerned

3. hauntedadjective

   inhabited by or as if by apparitions

   "a haunted house"

   Synonyms:
   obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)

   Antonyms:
   unconcerned, uninhabited, untroubled

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1. List of paraphrases for "haunted":

   obsessed, tormented

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1. Stanley Patz:

   I'm so convinced that Pedro Hernandez kidnapped and killed my son, he's a guilty man who's been conscience-stricken due to his deeds and haunted by demons ever since that day.

2. Steven Leung:

   People are holding back on companies haunted by similar issues involving management, worried that they might face some other hurdles even after a management reshuffle.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

4. Swanks Green:

   They need me more than anyone and Im not there, you think youre the only one haunted by the sacrifices you made to get here.

5. Linda Kay Klein:

   The fictions I had learned in church haunted me, i thought if you were in a hot tub and someone ejaculated, [ sperm ] would somehow get over to you. Sex created such a sense of shame that not only could I not have [ it ], I had nightmares and constant nagging thoughts of how far we had gone sexually.