haunting

Thân thiện

The haunting melody echoed through the empty concert hall.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect: Describes something that causes a profound feeling of unease, sadness, or disturbance, often in a beautiful or poignant way.
   • Continually recurring to the mind: Describes something, such as a memory, image, or sound, that is difficult to forget and returns persistently to one's thoughts.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The documentary featured haunting images of the abandoned city.
  • She has a haunting voice that stays with you long after the song ends.
  • He was troubled by haunting memories of the accident.

Advanced Usage

• "haunting beauty": A beauty that is poignant, melancholic, and deeply moving, often leaving a lasting, bittersweet impression.
  • The film captures the haunting beauty of the winter landscape.
• "haunting melody": A tune or piece of music that is emotionally powerful, memorable, and often sad or nostalgic.
  • The cello played a haunting melody that filled the concert hall.

Variants and Related Words

• Haunt (verb): To visit or inhabit as a ghost; to persistently recur to the mind of someone.
  • The old mansion is said to be haunted.
  • The mistake continued to haunt him for years.
• Haunted (adjective): Inhabited or visited by ghosts; showing signs of mental anguish or obsession.
  • a haunted house
  • He had a haunted look in his eyes.

Synonyms

• Unforgettable: Impossible to forget.
• Poignant: Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
• Eerie: Strange and frightening.
• Persistent: Continuing to exist or occur over a prolonged period.

Related Phrases

• To be haunted by something: To be persistently troubled or preoccupied by a memory, feeling, or thought.
  • She was haunted by the feeling that she had made a terrible mistake.

Related Idioms

• A haunting presence: A feeling or memory that feels as if it is always there, affecting the atmosphere or a person's state of mind.
  • Even years later, the tragedy left a haunting presence in the small town.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect
   • from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration-Charles Lee
2. continually recurring to the mind
   • haunting memories
   • the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty- Claudia Cassidy

Từ đồng nghĩa

• persistent