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Haunted vs. Spooky — What's the Difference?

Haunted vs. Spooky — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Haunted and Spooky

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Haunted

To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.

Spooky

Suggestive of ghosts or spirits, especially in being eerie or disturbing
A spooky attic.

Haunted

To visit often; frequent
Haunted the movie theaters.

Spooky

Easily startled; skittish
A spooky horse.

Haunted

To come to the mind of continually; obsess
A riddle that haunted me all morning.
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Spooky

(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural. Category:en:Horror

Haunted

To be continually present in; pervade
The melancholy that haunts the composer's music.

Spooky

(informal) Spooked; afraid; frightened.

Haunted

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

Spooky

(informal) Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses).

Haunted

A place much frequented.

Spooky

Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious;
An eerie feeling of deja vu

Haunted

Also hant or ha'nt (hănt) or haint (hānt) Chiefly Southern US A ghost or other supernatural being.

Spooky

Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Haunted

Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts. Category:en:Horror
The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

Haunted

Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
A soldier haunted by the memories of combat

Haunted

Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
A haunted expression

Haunted

Simple past tense and past participle of haunt
According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

Haunted

Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
All houses wherein men have lived and diedAre haunted houses.

Haunted

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

Haunted

Showing emotional affliction or disquiet;
Her expression became progressively more haunted

Haunted

Inhabited by or as if by apparitions;
A haunted house

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