nightmare
a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
a condition, thought, or experience suggestive of a nightmare: the nightmare of his years in prison.
(formerly) a monster or evil spirit believed to oppress persons during sleep.
Origin of nightmare
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How to use nightmare in a sentence
On the downside, it rewards them with fodder for nightmares.
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Is It Wrong for Parents to Lock Up Their Disabled Kids? | Elizabeth Picciuto | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd what the Latvians found was beyond their worst nightmares.
The vision of this terrible night would visit my nightmares for many years.
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New York is like one of those nightmares a certain class of writers project and label 'Earth in the Year 2000.'
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonIt was enough to give a man nightmares, to watch that line of High-Pockets Joneses advancing across an open composing-room.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisWith such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheWhy this horrible persecution that dug into the depths of his own nightmares to haunt him?
The Dark Door | Alan Edward NourseIt does not belong to the commonplace world; it is of such stuff as dreams, including nightmares, are made of.
Humanly Speaking | Samuel McChord Crothers
British Dictionary definitions for nightmare
/ (ˈnaɪtˌmɛə) /
a terrifying or deeply distressing dream
an event or condition resembling a terrifying dream: the nightmare of shipwreck
(as modifier): a nightmare drive
a thing that is feared
(formerly) an evil spirit supposed to harass or suffocate sleeping people
Origin of nightmare
1Derived forms of nightmare
- nightmarish, adjective
- nightmarishly, adverb
- nightmarishness, noun
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