Usually means: Eerie, lingering presence or effect.
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  1. hauntingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. hauntingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hauntingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hauntingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hauntingly, hauntingly: Wordnik
  6. hauntingly: Wiktionary
  7. hauntingly: Dictionary.com
  8. hauntingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See haunt as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hauntingly)

▸ adverb:  In a haunting manner.

Similar:
hauntedly, ghostishly, ghostily, eerily, terrifyingly, spookishly, scarily, spookily, disquietingly, unsettlingly, more...

Opposite:
unremarkably, ordinarily, mundanely

Types:
eerily, creepily, spookily, uncannily, more...

Phrases:
hauntingly beautiful, more...

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Similar:
hauntedly, ghostishly, ghostily, eerily, terrifyingly, spookishly, scarily, spookily, disquietingly, unsettlingly, more...

Opposite:
unremarkably, ordinarily, mundanely

Types:
eerily, creepily, spookily, uncannily, more...

Phrases:
hauntingly beautiful, more...



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