hauntedEnglishOxford American Thesaurushaunted adjective 1 a haunted house: possessed, cursed, jinxed; ghostly, eerie, unearthly, otherworldly; informal spooky. 2 haunted eyes stared at her: tormented, anguished, troubled, plagued, bedeviled, beleaguered, oppressed, obsessed, tortured, preoccupied, worried, disturbed. ▷antonyms untroubled.