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  • 1. haunting
  • Rhymes with Haunting
  • Haunting in a sentence
  • Quotes about Haunting
  • 2. haunting
Table of Contents
  • 1. haunting
  • Rhymes with Haunting
  • Haunting in a sentence
  • Quotes about Haunting
  • 2. haunting
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. haunting

adjective. ['ˈhɔntɪŋ'] continually recurring to the mind.

Synonyms

  • persistent

Antonyms

  • docile
  • sporadic

Rhymes with Haunting

  • flaunting
  • taunting
  • daunting

Sentences with haunting


1. Noun, singular or mass
Among the more interesting elements of the Hotel del Coronado's past is the well-known rumors of its haunting.

2. Adjective
Guests in Room 6 have reported haunting organ music that is only heard from within the room.

3. Verb, gerund or present participle
Stop in the old mining town of Jerome, a haunting a place.

Quotes about haunting


1. Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
- Joyce Carol Oates

2. Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
- Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

3. Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

2. haunting

adjective. ['ˈhɔntɪŋ'] having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect.

Antonyms

  • caducous
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