different between troubled vs haunted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??bl?d/

Adjective

troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)

1. anxious, worried, careworn.

   • 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.

Translations

Verb

troubled

1. simple past tense and past participle of trouble

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hônt, IPA^(key): /?h??nt?d/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?nt?d/
• Hyphenation: haunt?ed

Adjective

haunted (comparative more haunted, superlative most haunted or hauntedest)

1. Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

   The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

2. Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).

   a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

3. Showing a feeling of being disturbed.

   a haunted expression

Translations

Verb

haunted

1. simple past tense and past participle of haunt

   According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

Anagrams

• de-haunt, dehaunt, nut head, nut-head, nuthead, undeath, unhated