Troubled vs Haunted - What's the difference?
troubled | haunted | Related terms |
Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
(haunt)
As adjectives the difference between troubled and haunted
is that troubled is anxious, worried, careworn while haunted is of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.As verbs the difference between troubled and haunted
is that troubled is past tense of trouble while haunted is past tense of haunt.troubled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)haunted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
- a haunted expression
Verb
(head)- According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.
