Synonyms for haunting
haunt·ing

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1. haunting, persistentadjective

   continually recurring to the mind

   "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy

   Synonyms:
   persistent, lasting, unrelenting, tenacious, relentless, dour, unyielding, dogged, pertinacious

   Antonyms:
   unmoving, forgettable

2. hauntingadjective

   having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect

   "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee

   Synonyms:
   persistent

   Antonyms:
   unmoving, forgettable

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1. Thomas Wolfe:

   Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

2. Charles Matz:

   I think he turned his head in the middle of the scan, and we recorded it, and the resulting 3D model had this cleft in it. That's what gave it that haunting expression.

3. Leonardo Trasande:

   These chemicals have a rap sheet, and the fact of the matter is that when you look at the entire body of evidence, it provides a haunting pattern of concern.

4. George Clooney:

   Grant and I couldn't be more excited to be involved with this incredible project, mark is a writer we've long admired and his script is haunting. We're thrilled to be working with our friends at Netflix as well.

5. H.L. Mencken:

   Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.