Associations to the word «Haunting»

Wiktionary

HAUNTING, verb. Present participle of haunt
HAUNTING, noun. A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope